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Getting Along 
WITHOUT THE DEVIL 

A Preamble, to His 
RESOLUTIONS. 



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GETTING ALONG WITHOUT THE DEVIL. 

A Preamble to the Resolutions. 

When a mere boy I read in God's word, "If ye had 
the faith of the mustard seed you could move moun- 
tains/' I pondered this over in my mind until recently. 
Again that the growth of His kingdom was likened unto 
a mustard seed. I pondered this. And I found this, 
"The word I shall speak it is truth." Then, like Nico- 
demus, I said, "How can these things be?" 
Discerned by the Spirit. 

God created the mustard seed to be very much like 
His own unchanging nature, just what our natures 
should be. The mustard seed, when thoroughly tested 
year after year, will be found to retain its own indi- 
viduality, and not mix with other plant growth, and 
bring forth substance unlike its own. 

God's word that became flesh is the good seed, liken- 
ed unto the mustard seed, by Himself; the seed that 
was promised to Abraham, and is meat for the souls of 
earnest ones to fatten upon, that won't mix with the 
tares of the field, "The children of the devil." The 
mustard seed may be crowded out of the garden, but it 
won't mix with other plants, just to have a place there, 
just to be seen of men. 

The Word of God may be choked out for lack of 
soil or because of stones, (unbelief), Matt. 13:25, but 
where the Word is understood and done, then it will 
never fail to bring forth substance of the thing hoped 
for, and, is that, that will convince the gainsayers, 
mountains. 

Jesus could do no mighty works because of unbelief, 
(Mark 6:5) ; Satan hindered and was in the people, 
compelling unbelief ; and were like mountains to move ; 

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not that they were mountains He could not move; for 
He floated off many unbelievers in Noah's day, and 
they were not healed, and today men are drifting, 
tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine, denying 
God's power to heal them, for fear He would heal them, 
and they might be converted. St. John 12 :40. 

Unbelief in God's power is a poor principle to find 
in anyone ; especially one claiming to be of the house- 
hold of Faith, and every time is indicative of Christian 
imperfection. 

A man cannot believe he believes if he cannot pro- 
duce the evidence of belief in Himself. The Word of 
God produces the evidence of two signs — signs of Be- 
lief and Unbelief. 

A real Christian manifests or represents God's sign 
of Belief by his work. Mark 16 :17. 

A hypocrite or sinner's works have the skull and 
crossbone's label, or trademark upon their goods; the 
reason is they have their back to God, and He places 
this mark upon them that we might know death, for we 
find death before those who oppose themselves, living 
unbelievers, contradicting the Word of God. A Chris- 
tian must be careful to get his sign to read from the 
right side. 

As no man can be a Christian unless he believes the 
Word of God, and he cannot believe unless he under- 
stands what to believe, for belief waits upon conv 
tion and conversion, for the gainsayer must be con- 
vinced before he will change. Christian, your sign 
must read to agree with the 17th and 18th verses of the 
16th chapter of Mark, or your spirit doesn't agree with 
the testimony of Christ's prophecy. If a man will no: 
take this evidence of belief, he cannot receive power to 
believe, for this is the Word of God. Mr. Christian 
are you going to substitute evidence of belief, and not 
take the evidence Christ looks for? 



Getting Along Without the Devil. 7 

Paul said a man is barbarian to what he doesn't 
understand or can't receive. Read God's voice in 
Scripture to Nicodemus, St. John 3rd chapter. Then 
Paul to the Corinthians, 1st Cor. 14 :11. You see, read- 
er, if a man can receive meaning, he understands ; oth- 
erwise it invites reasoning and questionings, and how- 
ever active that may be, he cannot receive the things 
that savor of God, for his salt has lost its savor. "Ye 
are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its 
savor wherewithal shall it be salted?" 

If a man can't understand, the evil one has got his 
saltness, by misrepresenting principles of salvation, 
and by cunningly devised fables. The Scripture must 
be opened by the porter — The spirit of knowledge — 
for the distinguished Gamaliel — Nicodemus — said, 
"How can these things be?" . 

Christ said "I go to prepare a place for you." If 
you want to know where your place is in the Spirit 
Mansion, call up the porter. He will show you what is 
prepared for you. Nicodemus called up the porter 
afterwards, and that put saltness in the Gamaliel, and 
he understood, for the porter opened the door to him. 
Read Nicodemus' testimony in Apochryphal New Tes- 
tament. He then had the advocate of the Spirit course, 
or route to that House, to find Jesus, Stephen and other 
mansions. As soon as one is led by this porter he 
goes in and out and finds pasture ; he is a new creature, 
begotten of the Porter, the Holy Ghost, born of God, 
and has fellowship with God, for Christ is in God, and 
He is in Christ, and Christ is in the new creature, born 
of God, and has fellowship with God — Spirit. Your 
child fellowships you after he is born of you, but be- 
fore, he cannot. So if you have fellowship in spirit 
with God, you know the things that be of God. 

You have, and are of the flesh when born of the 
flesh. You have and are of the Spirit when born of the 



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Spirit, and God is a spirit. What fellowship hath the 
Spirit of God with the spirit of Behemoth, the god of 
this world? The power of God — Christ, (1st. Cor. 1: 
24), or the kingdom of God — Righteousness (Rom. 14: 
17) is to be sought for. When found of Him He will 
develop in you, and shall be made known to you as you 
bring forth, or produce for the vine in His vineyard, 
that which you found of Him. Freely ye have received, 
freely give. Matt. 10:8. 

To learn the things or know the things that be r 
God, your understanding must not be darkened by the 
cares of this life, for Satan has his captives deluded 
to serve him. Their consolation is possession of his 
goods; a legal life tenure for their fidelity, and their 
support of his cause, and kingdom or power, which is 
out of harmony with Christ's doctrine: "Lay not up 
for yourselve rtseasures, ets. ;" and at St. John 13 :16 is 
this, "It is enough for the disciple to be even as his 
master." 

Christ would have none of the devil's juicy fruit; 
His desire was toward treasures of heaven. Can we be 
like Christ, and be a bank president? No. But that 
would be a pleasant existence here. "Sell all thou hast 
and give to the poor" is God's way of making it possi- 
ble for the rich to enter His kingdom. How hard He 
says, "It is for them to enter the kingdom of heaven 
that trust in riches." 

Jesus who was God with us (Matt. 1 :23) , conferred 
upon Peter the keys to the kingdom of heaven, which 
is revelation, and sought to make Peter His spokes- 
man, and prepared him to receive messages from 
heaven, for as Christ was, it was necessary for His dis- 
ciples to be, free from guile; for "God's eyes run to 
and fro throughout the earth to shew Himself strong 
in behalf of them, whose heart is perfect toward Him." 
2 Chron. 16:9. 



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The plummet, or plumb-line, is the word of knowl- 
edge by the Spirit, and is light or the candle, within 
the candlestick, which grasps, which is the brain ; the 
organ that receives the light, that is called the mind of 
Christ. The law before Christ came to the world, was 
the light of the world, but the Law-giver came and now 
He is the light. 

If a man has not this light he has no life in him. 
All these and other sayings found no place to abide in 
me, until the Word of the Lord came to me and said, 
"Lay down your old grease ivick, you have no light, 
buy of me that which is bread." I received the mes- 
sage gladly, and today the light of God reveals these, 
the deep things of God, to me, and I praise Him for 
showing me that I could not see and why. And that 
He would show me if I would let Him. Since I said, 
Lord God have your way in my spiritual affairs, and 
turned it all over to Him, now I see His way. As to the 
next lines, I have this to state as truth of myself. The 
printed Word of God I am untrained in ; have had no 
schooling or made no study of it, for I, myself, could 
get no knowledge, as it is recorded in the Holy Writ, 
viz. : "The natural man cannot receive the things that 
be of God." But when I sought the Spirit of God after 
knowledge of His Word, "lawfully," as Paul says, I re- 
ceived it. "When the Holy Spirit is come He will bring 
to your remembrance whatsoever I have said." 

We must stand approved of God to know "He that 
will do His will shall know of the Truth." "He gives 
eternal life to those who obey." When one is filled with 
the Holy Spirit, is when he has the knowledge of God ; 
God saying: "Mv people perish for lack of knowl- 
edge." 

I am submitting a new version of spiritual resolu- 
tions in one division or chapter, entitled His Resolu- 
tion; but to the next edition of His Resolutions will be 



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added, "The Man Of Sin Revealed/' a spiritual and 
phrenological analysis of Him. The Man of Sin Reveal- 
ed will be sold separately too. After comparing spirit- 
ual things recorded and you cannot be reconciled to get 
along without the devil complain to me for the Man of 
Sin Revealed. 

The Author. 



HIS DOCTRINE OR HIS RESOLUTIONS. 

ONE DIVISION. 

1J1. As we have resolved to know God, we must 
study ourselves to stand approved of Him, a workman 
that need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word 
of Truth. 

By this we understand it means we must be able 
to convince the gainsay ers, and certainly means noth- 
ing less. 

"For we must be of sound speech that cannot be 
condemned : that he that is of the contrary part may be 
ashamed, having no evil thing to say of us." Tit. 2 :8. 

We cannot bore a hole with a hand saw, -neither can 
a blind man see, so we don't expect to be able to show 
much blind folks that never saw a hole, hoping they be 
few, we will rid of them first, by quoting Clark Braden. 
Speaking of the spiritually blind, he said, "Like the 
bird of the night that flies toward the noon-day sun, 
and hoots there is no light, so is the spiritually-blind 
man that says, there is no God." 

Such creatures hoot there is no God. The devil 
answers the fool at Job 40:19: "God is my Father." 
Many who love the name "Christian" hoot there is no 
devil. The devil answers this blind bird too at John 
8 :43 and 44. I am your father. 

If 2. People who can't believe there is a God or a 
devil, cannot believe that good and evil people Re- 
lieve according to their spirit to believe with. Some 
kind of believers (sin relievers) say, "We don't need 
hold out to the end." There are wayside followers that 
Satan has removed, by moving back into, and drove out 
the power of God to say, "Get thee behind me Satan" 
and have become his ministers, his servants. 

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We must hear the voice of our Shepherd and follow 
Him to be safe from sin. While doing this we are eat- 
ing His flesh, and living by every word that proceed \ 
out of the mouth of God, which is Life, which is His 
Spirit, that He called bread, and manna that came 
down from heaven. If we cannot eat (cannot under- 
stand) we have nothing to sustain life ; for Satan soon 
takes possession of them who know not how to resist 
him (Matt. 13:19) ; the word teaching us there is a 
devil to resist ; this being a part of the good seed sown 
on stony ground. To not understand this means to 
perish. (Psa. 49:12, and Hosea 4:6). 

If 3. So our secret Master and silent Friend, Christ, 
is our bread from heaven, and we must serve Him to 
be served by Him, and when He serves us — breaks 
His bread, His word — we must eat. must understand. 
He says we must have the Holy Ghost to say He is 
the Lord our Master ; and must have His Spirit to obey 
Him. And too, we will know by His Spirit within, with 
the word of knowledge, which is the Spirit of Him that 
was born of the Virgin, who was Jesus, called Emman- 
uel — interpreted, God with us. 

With this God in Christ, and Christ in us, is, we are 
one, so be we have fellowship with God — Spirit. You 
know Jesus told us, that in His way and time He would 
bring to our remembrance whatsoever He had said, 
"And lo, I am with you even to the end." Those who 
believe this can prove themselves and are able to stand 
approved of God. Those who don't believe this are 
already damned. 

If 4. The Word of God became flesh when Jesus was 
born of the Virgin Mary, and became the light of the 
world, but before His advent into the world, the Law 
was the light; but could bring no fruit to perfection. 

We who have the light in us are expected to go on 
to perfection. Heb. 6. 



Getting Along Without the Devil 18 

We must be reconciled to the Spirit that God gives 
us. This is the candle with the light, or the knowledge 
of God, and is the plummet — His doctrine — which is 
within the candlestick — the brain — the organ of the 
mind, that we might know God, and save ourselves 
and others. 

115. The candle is the light which is the engrafted 
word, and is the light of God, the spirit to command. 
When do we speak the word of God as expressed by 
His Spirit? As when Peter spoke by revelation of the 
Spirit of God. When he declared Christ to be the Son 
of God ; for Peter or no other man can make known to 
man that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Ghost. 
1st Cor. 12 :3. 

If your life is the light of God, you can know that 
Christ is in God, God in Christ, and Christ in you. 
Devils believe and tremble, this is a good thing, but 
works without faith, without Christ is dead. Works 
of faith are deeds of the Spirit, called charity, for it 
is God, a Spirit that gives the increase. For the flesh 
profiteth nothing. 

116. "When one is tried and tempted he is tempted 
of his own lust, for God tempts no man, neither is God 
tempted." James 1:13. 

If we break one commandment it is done by a spirit 
that chooses to do evil. 

Though Jesus came from God, yet learned He obe- 
dience (Heb. 5:8), and He increased in wisdom and 
stature, and in favor with God, and man. (Luke 
2:52). He said He was the Son of man in heaven 
(St. John 3:13), wherein at that time dwelt righteous- 
ness; for He was the righteousness of God, and His 
dwelling-place was in earth at that time, wherein dwelt 
righteousness, and He said, "Heaven and earth shall 
pass away." 

What did He mean ? 'Twas this ! You need make 



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no distinction in names applied to my habitations, for 
heaven above could not be more advanced than earth 
'beneath if the righteousness of God dwelleth therein. 
His righteousness dwelling here makes this a paradise 
of God, and one in whom righteousness dwells is in a 
spiritual state, and is communicative in spirit, com- 
manded of God, of the Spirit, to act for God, that His 
kingdom be set up in earth; i. e., His power be recog- 
nized as it makes for us a paradise. 

The object of the Lord's prayer is to cause men to 
act for, and accept what they ask, as their desires are 
made known. 

If there were no opposition to His power, the Lord's 
Prayer would never have been instituted, there would 
be no evil-doer to dispute His rule, thus it becomes 
the duty of all to voice the testimony of the Son of 
Man, "I have come to do Thy will, Lord." 

If 7. The Son came to destroy the works of the devil, 
and His Holy Spirit came back in man to continue the 
crusade, an enterprise worthy of crowns. 

If a disciple of God's is not able to master or con- 
trol and defeat sin, his usefulness to God is at an end ; 
Jesus saying: "My Father worketh, hitherto I work." 
1st John 5:17. If you don't ask for something to do, 
God will employ one who is diligent in seeking Him to 
know. "He that seeks, finds," "He that asks, receives." 
"Take no thought of what ye shall say." I know these 
quotations are true for myself, in my writing. 

Tf8. If you believe Christ's return to be disproved by 
Christians' indifference to ask Him to manifest Him- 
self, we are then confident your hope is not hope, and 
your life is to be a Christless life, lest it be with you 
as it happened with Apostle Paul on the road to Da- 
mascus. 

If proving His word will do the work, then He will 
say stretch forth thine hand, Thomas. If a seeker 






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really is in earnest He will prove Himself; He has the 
proof of His testimony, for the testimony of Jesus was 
the Spirit of prophecy, and He was no false prophet. 
But he who says, or testifies falsely, he has the Spirit 
of Christ and has not, and desires not, and denies that 
God sets the gifts in His church, is a false prophet, and 
a liar, and not a believer, his own testimony bearing 
false witness for Christ and the Word of God. 

119. Jesus speaking of His own works: "Of Myself I 
can do nothing." Peter and the other apostles were 
without, had it not been for this power that seeth in 
secret who rewarded them openly, Christ saying, "Ask 
and I will do it." 

If you want evidence you only need to ask, believ- 
ing. If you say you are hungry and can't prove it, 
it would be to excuse yourself for lack of refresh- 
ments. So, too, if you can't prove you believe, don't 
pronounce an ecclesiastical curse on the prophecy 01 
the Master. The trouble with you is, you have not re- 
pented since you doubted His word; which must be 
done for the last time, which will be the first thing you 
ever did to please God. Understand, reader, doubting 
God's word for the last time will be the first thing you 
ever did to displease the devil too. And you will never 
try to understand the Word of God as long as there is a 
doubt in you of its truth or sanity. Daniel said, "Tb< 
wicked shall not understand." So you know why 
you don't know, God is giving to every man 
severely as He will, for the edifying of the 
Church. The natural man cannot receive the Word 
and understand. If you do not ask God to show you, 
or give you wisdom (the word of wisdom by the Spirit) 
to understand His doctrine, the whole truth, you are a 
scrap Christian made up of fragments of His Word, 
and you are neither hot nor cold ; He will spew you out 
of His mouth, for man's ways are not God's way, be- 



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cause of that inbred sin; find it. Man's inhumanity 
to man is it When man settles this debt with his f el- 
lowman he may hear well done. 

1J10. The substance of your sinful nature must be 
burned out with the conviction that the Holy Ghost re- 
proves you with, and transform it to the likeness of a 
mustard seed in nature, that won't mix with sin ; Paul 
saying at 1st Cor. 10:20: "I would that ye have not 
fellowship with devils." Doubters are heretics, or 
devils. 

If it had been possible for a man to escape damna- 
tion without repentance, Jesus would not have pro- 
claimed this, "Repent or ye shall all likewise perish." 
This is Scripture. When one is penitent; his past is 
sinful, and is grievous to meditate upon; he will then 
ask of God who giveth to all men liberally, but he must 
ask believing unwaveringly, for the wavering shall 
not receive anything of the Lord. James 1. 

Tfll. There are such as preach that repentance is 
unnecessary. These are proselytes who were converted 
to an opinion, and repentance is not needful. 

The devil never repented, and if a man will not re- 
pent he holds to the devil's opinion in this matter. 

1112. A rich person hearing or reading prophecy 
may learn to face destruction, must lose all at death, 
with no promise of possessions for him in that other 
world. 

He comes to God to know the way, and is to hear, 
"Sell all thou hast and divide it among the poor," "for 
it is enough for the disciple to be even as his master." 
He had not where to lay His head. He must become as 
a little child, i. e., he must enter the kingdom, leaving 
all substance of earth behind. This is the way God 
made it possible for the rich man to enter the kingdom 
of God. Does the little child love the things of the 
world? No. Not until he is trained to the use and 



Getting Along Without the Devil. 17 

need of them for support. If he, the child, leaves his 
first love and becomes avaricious, or greedy for gain, 
and loves possession of property to the exclusion of 
Christ, he makes his bed in hell, where David prayed 
his soul should not be left. Hell is the abode of evil 
spirits, where David made his bed when he became an 
adulterer and murderer. 

1(13. We must flee from the wrath to come, but in 
fleeing do not insist on entering the holy place in an 
unholy state, unbidden into the presence of God, for 
without holiness no man shall see the Lord. If the 
Lord is to be found in a church that has a devil in it, 
it's somebody's move — move to the altar or to the 
street. If there be a church with a devil in it, he will 
demand his seat, be at the head of the table, when he 
will hear, "How earnest thou in here friend, bind him 
and cast him out." This is good instruction. 

Tfl4. "Little children in my Father's kingdom, their 
angels do always behold my Father's face which is in 
heaven, and except ye become as a little child ye shall 
not enter therein. Whosoever shall not receive the 
kingdom of God as a little child he shall not enter there- 
in." Mark 10:15. 

At Luke 17:21: "The kingdom of God is within 
you," and at Rom. 14:17: "The kingdom of God is 
righteousness," and at Jer. 33:16: "The Lord is Right- 
eousness." 

Little children are righteous, for the great Judge 
said, they were in His kingdom, in His power, and they 
believed in Him. Mark 9:42. 

Ifl5. They have Christ the righteous to believe 
with, which in principle, is God, and all this is over- 
looked by parents, for it is not understood in general 
that these little ones are the children of His kingdom, 
the seed promised to Abraham, God having pledged 
His Son to redeem the sons of men, who were the first- 



18 Getting Along Without the Devil. 

born of many brethren. Understand this, God or 
Spirit of God, was in Christ, and Christ or God was Je- 
sus. God and Christ are Spirit, and each but a name, 
not two in name, no more than sheep and sheeps is 
proper. That which is born of the Spirit — God — is 
Spirit is God, and Christ was born of God, and is a 
God. As a sheep that is born of a sheep is a sheep, or 
that which is born of the flesh is flesh, is one flesh. 

If 16. If these little ones are enticed by parents or 
others who have the care of them, to forsake or leave 
their habitation, and stray off after the things of this 
world, they do offend the restoring, and prevent the 
return of His power and kingdom. This pledge is a 
purchase price, or that which the sinner receives as an 
equivalent, for the contraband effects on hand with 
which he was first purchased from the true Shepherd. 
So the prophet Ezekiel at 33:15, says: "If the wicked 
restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk 
in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity ; he 
shall surely live, he shall not die." 

So here and now, we must return and live by re- 
storing to God His rightful authority to the Tabernacle 
we turned over to the god of mammon. 

We can't say for all men how all lost their first love, 
and were choked out, but we know we were perfect be- 
fore iniquity was found in us, and of His righteous- 
ness know we must be born again ; be restored to that 
state of purity, and receive Christ our righteousness, 
and the righteousness of God, the kingdom of God, then 
we are born of His Spirit, the righteousness of God. 
If we will resist the devil, who is all deceivableness, 
he will flee from us. We must spurn the wicked ways 
of men, touch not, taste not, handle not, and then God 
will receive us unto Himself. If a man learns to love 
the things of the world, the love of unrighteousness has 
taken the love of God, or has robbed God of our love for 



Getting Along Without the Devil 19 

Him. These worldly effects are the price of your soul. 

1J16. Here is an unanswerable question. How shall 
we escape if we neglect so great a salvation ? We need 
not neglect to escape destruction as all we need do is to 
elude Satan's traffic managers. The devil is king over 
all the children of pride. Job 41 :34. And God made him 
(Job 40:19) to rule over these undesirables. Ezekiel 
33:15: treats the spiritualists' doctrine of regenera- 
tion as uncongenial, and not a suitable plan of salva- 
tion, and not projected in His principles, that prophet 
saying thereat, man must live and not commit iniqui- 
ty. You see the prophet does not say child, he says 
man. 

But the spiritualist disputes with Scripture, and 
teaches incarnation ; that man cannot live without sin- 
ning, and puts off the judgment by coming into a free- 
born state ; freed from sin, by returning to earth after 
death: and born again, a little child, and die without 
committing iniquity. 

Tfl7. Here Mr. Spiritualist, not one of you need the 
use of the 12 th chapter of 1st Corinthians, for a tem- 
ple in whom God's Spirit dwells, must be swept, cleaned 
and garnished before His Spirit will come with any 
one of the nine gifts. I know when healing is exercised 
by His Spirit, is brought to pass, no internal or exter- 
nal applications of man's ability to bring it to pass are 
needful. I have seen the Lord heal before a medium 
could write a prescription. These people don't claim to 
live without sinning, and as Daniel, the prophet, said, 
the wicked shall not understand ; there will be no dang- 
er of these getting the word of knowledge, or the word 
of wisdom, so if they were right they wouldn't know 
it, and without understanding Jesus said, the evil one 
takes away that which is sown in the heart, the good 
seed, the Word. 
Any sheep who might be paying such a shepherd from 



20 Getting Along Without the Devil. 

two to five dollars per month for brousing these waste 
places, is very indifferent about their spiritual welfare, 
and not only their spiritual, but are liable to miss sev- 
eral square meals, and heaven too. 

1J18. Grace means mercy, favor, pardon. So we must 
be born of the Spirit of God, grow in grace, and in the 
knowledge of the truth; that by such manner of per- 
fecting ourselves which we are commanded to do, we 
work out our own salvation with fear and trembling. 
The devil walks up and down the land seeking whom 
he may devour, and he does this with all deceivable- 
ness. After he has put murder in man's heart, and his 
command executed, he places the murderer's soul in the 
congregation of the dead, right where God forewarned 
us to beware of, for we must not wander out of the way 
of understanding; if we do, the evil one becomes our 
master and destroys our souls in hell where evil spirits 
dwell, the devil becoming our master, the old destroyer ; 
therefore fear evil. 

Beware of men, said Jesus ; the celebrated ones like 
Herod, the Spirit of God defended the innocent from; 
and he was avoided, and a type of such are in the land 
yet ; one of our rulers saying, if you haven't got a case 
against him make one. The ruler's subject was one 
only fighting sin, and happened to cut off a nose in- 
stead of an ear. This ruler went down to defeat, and it 
was this and similar remarks against the innocent, the 
undesirables, that did it. This ruler went down to de- 
feat as a ruler will, who will use his power against an 
innocent, not able to resist, will always find himself 
and his policies up before the public for inspection. 

Paul says : 'It's not the manner of the Romans to 
deliver any man before he that be accused have his 
accusers faced, with license to answer or defend him- 
self. Acts 25:16. 

1J19. Some men have had to burn at the stake to ob- 



Getting Along Without the Devil. 21 

tain their spiritual freedom. Jesus using the word 
beware — need only be applied to, and for the protec- 
tion of the innocent. The criminal must suffer his 
reward — the electric chair is a square deal, and is sin's 
grandest, purest method of extinguishing life. 

Jesus said : "Fear not these that are able to destroy 
the body, and have done all they can do, but fear Him 
that is able to "persuade men to do evil one to another, 
and able not only to destroy men's bodies but their 
souls with their bodies." Who would we look upon to 
beware? There is but one that would destroy your 
righteous soul — he is Satan. There are too many wolf 
hides stretched over men's forms, dressed in lamb's 
wool, standing where they ought not be. 

TT20. Satan's clerks report their master pays cash, 
and they will fill their tills at his expense, and if every- 
one of this class takes up the cross in our God's name 
he bears it in vain. Satan counts his servants smart 
for standing pat, and in not trying to miss hell, and 
with no promise of reward after death, for the wages 
of sin is death, and death is from everlasting to ever- 
lasting. The way to hell is the do nothing to know 
route, but he that understands the law of God shall not 
perish therein. If all men understood the law of God 
the devil would have more time to study it. If any man 
wishes to hinder the escape of Satan's captives, all he 
need do is teach that it is impossible to keep God's com- 
mandments. The devil says, what's the use to try, 
God is too hard to satisfy. And if he can't make one 
believe this he will tell you, you've got nothing to do. 

The only man who needs to feel that God is hard to 
please, is the man who is satisfied without Him; it 
doesn't hurt him to know it. 

1121. No purse of Mammon is large enough to pur- 
chase, or duplicate the gift of God, the Holy Spirit. 
The gift of this silent friend is for obedience to the 



22 Getting Along Without the Devil. 

will of God, and is legal authority with power to pro- 
vide and command our needs. 

Christ came to earth to destroy the works of Satan, 
and set his captives free, who have been taken by him 
in some enterprise of his. 

God can only destroy the works of the devil with 
His law that is written in the minds of obedient ser- 
vants. 

The devil has his captives slaving for him in the 
upkeep of this world's goods, which he places in their 
trust for their efforts in supporting or maintaining 
his contradiction to God's Word. 

Our Silent Friend takes up His abode in us day by 
day as we draw away from the love of things of earth, 
and becomes our daily bread as we subsist upon Him, 
and is an act of obedience that delivers from sin, and 
he that will do His will shall know the Truth that 
makes him free, and it is the knowing to do ; for with- 
out this know to do, His will cannot be performed ; for 
Satan hinders takes advantage of the weak, as they 
risk or dare live without the knowledge of God's Word. 
Read Luke 12 :4, 5, then If 19 of this explanation. 

Tf22. If we understand how to win favor of God, ob- 
tain pardon for sin, retain it, we know His way or 
plan of escape for us, and who to fear after we are free 
from sin. We get it all out of every word of His 
mouth, and is that manna from heaven. We must be 
a branch of the vine to subsist on this manna ; and this 
is the substance of the thing hoped for — is our faith, 
our bread — and when this is broken, is eaten ; is good; 
gives life ; unlike the forbidden food, that was misun- 
derstood by a venture to mean knowledge, but in truth 
it was death, for the wages of sin is death. 

At 2 Peter 1 :5, 6, 7, these life-giving, formalizing 
principles of spiritual diet, reduced to the substance of 



Getting Along Without the Devil. 23 

the thing hoped for, is the perfect way, or the more 
excellent way. 

1f23. God's power has been made possible for us 
through the man Jesus, and His Spirit is our evidence, 
and is produced when He will and to whom He will. 

If an apostle fails in obedience, his power with God 
is at an end. 

If one denies the power of God he will be excluded 
as an apostle, or in other words he excludes himself, 
and is without power, for the works of Jesus which 
God commanded done; only, are credentials that will 
be taken as evidence by the Father, that His Spirit 
dwells in you. And if a follower of Jesus cannot be 
comforted by these signs, then the devil can make room 
for another Judas, who was the first man to go to hell 
for denying the power of God, Christ and His word, 
and works. 

1124. He that says "I know Him" and keeps not His 
commandments is a liar. 1 John 2:4. Why? If one 
keeps all the commandments of God he will know God. 
1 John 2:3. Why again? For we must live by know- 
ing every word that proceeds out of His mouth, (Matt. 
4:4) and must have the Holy Spirit within to say this : 
we know God — for "no man can say that Jesus is the 
Lord but by the Holy Ghost." 1 Cor. 12:3, for God 
won't take man's evidence. 

The first ten commandments were written by the 
finger of God, and Christ who was God in Jesus was 
the writer, and Jesus taught us to obey them, and all 
of them are repeated in the New Testament save one. 

Every disciple of Christ's obeys these commands, 
and knows ; for by keeping and doing them he under- 
stands the principle of Truth, and thus he knows God 
by His voice — His Spirit — and it's this kind only that 
can follow. 

Man's incompetency to serve God as he ought, be- 



24 Getting Along Without the Devil. 

comes evidence as His Spirit voices His word. Men 
try to keeip in touch with God through the knowledge 
of the world, but it's not in men to direct their own 
steps. Jer. 10:23. God will not cast away the perfect 
man, nor help the evil-doer. Job 8 :20. 

1J25. When we hear the voice of God we cannot be 
entertained by the things of the world, and are each 
day getting a better understanding of what is ex- 
pected of us. 

The way or place of perfection cannot be seen until 
God, through prophecy, is known to be that man Jesus 
Christ, who is able to confer with His disciples in 
Spirit, thereby shedding His life, His light, each day 
upon them; that the proprietor of it all, Satan, can- 
not influence with gain of this world. 

Without Christ, God is never known, and we can- 
not be converted or changed from the natural to the 
spiritual; whereat we are possessors of the unity of 
Christ in God — and Christ as God and He or they in 
us, which is the unity of the Spirit, in the bonds of 
peace, in the earth ; these three agreeing in one, water, 
blood and Spirit. Water, a type or symbol of under- 
standing. Blood is the life flow of the tabernacle, and 
is carnal existence. Spirit is both Father and Christ. 

At this juncture the God-Head is realized, is the 
kingdom of God in man, for it is the whole power 
of God in man, and is our inheritance, the seed prom- 
ised to Abraham, our talents. 

1126. Jesus was strengthened by angels after His 
fast of forty days ; think you we need not this protec- 
tion. We certainly do. The angels of God are ap- 
pointed over those of us whom He has set over others 
to establish His council here. 

These ministering spirits from God — these angels 
— direct our speech; our steps; put away backsliding, 



Getting Along Without the Devil. 25 

and inconstancy, and make it more tolerable to resist 
the devil by pointing out the sheep, the wolves, the 
word, and give desire to obey in order to have fellow- 
ship in Spirit, with God that we might know the things 
that be of God. It is this that begets wisdom of God 
that heals, etc., and compels belief by works. 

If we accept conditions of peace, this life-giving 
flow of Spirit, or wisdom from God, that was likened 
unto wisdom by Solomon ; then we have found the 
Messiah who yields a needful understanding of Hi. 
plan, if we will diligently contend for the prize, cate- 
chised by all His commands, and not found forgetful 
of duties; but if found refractory and careless then a 
helpless surrender of the gift of life will be compelled. 
Christ, Spirit life, the sacrifice to all who will eat and 
live. 

1f27. Christ tasted death for all who will live godly 
in this world, and takes our sins away, or puts, or sets 
it aside, or takes the place of our sin that is the seed oX 
death — spiritual death. Sin is in the body and there- 
fore death is in the body. He takes the place of sin, 
the seed of death, for He is life, the seed of Abraham, 
for he that doeth righteous is righteous, even as He is 
righteous. Christ is the Spirit of God, the sacrifice, 
the end of the law, and is the author of salvation to all 
who are converted or convinced. Had this plan, which 
was foreseen, not been accepted, all would neglect con- 
version or transformation, the only way of escape ; had 
all this, the foreknowledge of God, then the past to all 
who have accepted His terms of peace would mean to 
them what it means to souls that won't have Him. 
Jesus was a friend to sinners, but no sinner is a friend 
of Jesus. To be a friend he must obey His command- 
ments. 

Philip said to Jesus, "Show us the Father." His 
reply: "Have I been so long time with you Philip and 



26 Getting Along Without the Devil 

yet thou sayest show us the Father?" "Who hath seen 
me hath seen the Father." 

1f28. John the Baptist was uncertain, and sent two 
of his disciples to Jesus to know if "He be the Christ, 
or look we for another." Luke 7:18, 19, 20. Since he 
had baptized Jesus, since hearing the voice of the 
Father, "This is My Son," and saw the Holy Ghost in 
the form of a dove upon Him ; and after pointing out 
Jesus as the Lamb of God ; yet he knew less about the 
power of God, 1 Cor. 1:24, who is Christ, than any 
of Christ's disciples, for they were in His power, as 
much as were the words He spoke which were to form 
them. Christ's disciples were in His power, under His 
rule and could not doubt for they understood. They 
were taught daily His works, and explained to them 
privately His identity, of which John had no expres- 
sion, only as Jesus had sent him word, and He said 
once more, "Show John again how the lepers are 
healed, the blind see, etc., His works being the evidence 
sent back to John, that He was that power from God. 

1f29. 1 Cor. 12 :3 : "The Holy Ghost must now re- 
veal the power of God, Christ." 1 Cor. 1 :24. The Holy 
Ghost came to chastise, or correct; for man's testi- 
mony will not be taken, for no man without the Holy 
Ghost can say that Jesus is the God. We are allowed 
to bear witness after that the Holy Ghost testifies. 

His testimony is works by faith — Christ. Without 
being clothed upon with power we become an injustice 
to ourselves and to God. But one clothed upon by the 
Holy Ghost only, can bear record or witness for power 
— Christ — be justified and able to receive the blessing 
of God. 

If 30. The Spirit of God makes no demands upon us ; 
has nothing for us to do until we understand His will, 
then we are demanded to act; are clothed upon with 
power and ready to do. 



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Peter was not able to strengthen the brethren, un- 
till he was converted. That was after he had stood 
examination at Jerusalem ten days. We stand ap- 
proved of God when we understand His will and do it. 
Everyone who is a sheep is led w T hithersoever the 
Spirit directs that sheep; and he goes in and out at 
meal times as the voice or Spirit opens the door — the 
Word — and finds pasture. And this spiritual food is 
Spirit-discerned, being instant in season and out, ready 
to act at the Spirit call, and lie down when there is 
nothing to hear, nothing required. 

T[31. We escape the pollutions of this world by and 
through the knowledge and understanding of the Word 
and His voice — the Spirit, the Holy Ghost in the tem- 
ple of God — the brain, the organ of the mind, that 
serves the law of God ; Paul saying, "I serve the law of 
God with my mind." If our minds are clothed upon, 
sufficiently for service to God, we will not lust after 
things that moth corrupt. 

Amoth is a weevil, a bit of corruption, a particle 
of flesh. If there is the least bit of their work discov- 
ered there is decay, and means the temple is not 
cleaned, swept and garnished, and ridded of that which 
profiteth nothing. 

Tf32. Whenever we allow the wisdom or the knowl- 
edge of men its influence, we are mindful of the fruit 
thereof, calculated to make one wise ; since God said it 
was foolishness to Him. 

We are safe when we escape men's ways, for his 
ways are not God's ways. God's way, the highway, is 
so high that the wayfaring men — though fools, as the 
two apostles were on their way to Emmaus, termed 
fools by Jesus, cannot walk therein, for they did not 
know the way. Jesus was the way and they did not 
understand, were not clothed upon with power to know 
the way and the truth. 



28 Getting Along Without the Devil. 

Fools fear knowledge of God. This is what created 
man, the power that brought Lazarus forth, and Jesus 
from the sepulchre. These are the demonstrations of 
the Spirit and power, that is of the highway ; too high 
for men to say, it's our way, and this kingdom is with- 
out, and beyond; that cannot be observed by wayfar- 
ers, who cannot observe things spiritual. Men who 
have broken the covenant have sinned, and ceaseth to be 
as little childreify°more worthy to be called sons. 

1f33. Sons are perfected by Holy Ghost reproof, 
that are in the highway of holiness. By the influence 
of this Divine guide, this silent friend, who is eligible 
to command obedience, we are delivered and kept free 
from the tempter, who is the tree of knowledge whose 
fruit is food, for those who can't live without the devil. 
His fruit is the elements of the world, such as is termed 
merchantable among men. 

Men who are captive to these elements have no 
further choice or choosing, and no preference between 
heaven and hell ; with no knowledge of either ; and de- 
stroy themselves for lack of knowledge. Hosea 4:6. 
And people that do not understand shall fall. Hosea 
4:14. 

1f34. The wrath of God is applied to the man w r ho 
will not obey Him, as the axe is applied to the tree that 
brings forth not good fruit; for in the testimony of 
John the Baptist, every tree (every man) that bring- 
eth forth not good fruit is hewn down and cast into the 
fire. We don't pick figs from thistles. 

Brain is matter, a substance giving power to men, 
and from this source they gather fruits that decay. 

When this market-place is cleaned and garnished, 
and the fruit is without spot or blemish, then God picks 
figs from whence thistles grew. 

1f35. Thistles are likened unto thorns, or sins of 
the flesh, planted by the father of evil, the old serpent, 



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and before that we are rid of our tares that make of 
us a tare, or in other words, before that we are rid of 
our sins that make of us sinners, we know not how to 
produce good fruit, for we ourselves are void of under- 
standing, how to produce good fruit being a tree of evil. 
1J36. The first transgressor, Eve, was entertained 
by a dishonored guest of the Garden, and fell to his 
level, becoming a tree of evil and she in turn beguiled 
her mate with the devil's fruit, for which she received 
an awful scourging at the hands of God. Gen. 3:16. 
But she was to be saved by child-bearing. 1 Tim. 2 :15. 
This fruit of the tree of knowledge of evil, brought 
forth death, for when it conceives it brings forth 
death ; and death was in the fruit she ate, for by her 
disobedience her punishment was child-bearing. Sin, 
the sting of death, was in the fruit she ate. So our 
knowledge of sin came through the curse placed upon 
Eve for disobedience. For by the disobedience of one 
man came sin into the world. Rom. 5:19. This world 
is the people, and the people are flesh, and that which 
is born of flesh is flesh ; and in this birth is the sting 
of death, for sin was condemned in the flesh, thus the 
sting of death that was in the fruit she ate, was in the 
flesh. 

Tf37. And righteousness became flesh when Jesus 
was born of the Virgin Mary, and by His righteousness 
many shall be made righteous. Rom. 5 :19. 

If you understand this word that became flesh, 
which is righteousness, you know that he that loves 
righteousness hates evil, and is righteous. 

1f38. The devil entices to hate righteousness, by his 
cunning devices, that men not yet born of righteous- 
ness have learned to admire, for they live upon the 
substance of his devices, of which they make their arm 
of strength, and have a life-time lease upon them for 



30 Getting Along Without the Devil. 

their service, their zeal, and diligence in their up-keep 
and in the hope of leaving something behind them that 
is shelter in the time of storm. This is the only hope 
the devil puts in men's minds; and is stored away in 
one of man's mental faculties called Acquisitiveness; 
and is a love for gain, a great zeal to have something, 
a swine faculty if not restrained. People with the 
swine faculty strong, are they who Jesus said would 
have a very hard time to enter the kingdom of heaven ; 
but He showed the rich young man just what to do. 
These are a bunch of tares, children of the devil, made 
themselves so by the love of money — the root of all evil. 
The end of such on earth will be when this earth takes 
its plunge through space and becomes a molten mass, 
a comet. But great weeping and wailing intervenes 
this time and that. Read in the Scriptures where 
Dives, the rich man, testifies. See if you feel like be- 
lieving Christ on this subject. 

Tf39. Well-to-do Christians are so well to do that a 
man like Christ that had not as much as a pillow would 
have a poor show to find a bed among them, either for 
Himself or His Father. A poodle dog and a golf stick, 
Lord, for me. All who declare God's works stopped, 
when life went out of the last apostle, are unbelievers, 
for Christ is not in them nor of them. Can the tes- 
timony of men prevent fulfillment of prophecy? 

ff40. The key to the kingdom of God is knowledge 
of God, revealed by the Spirit. When this key is strove 
for lawfully, and obtained, we know the kingdom is 
righteousness. 

A believer is honored with evidence of Divine pow- 
er, and cannot afford to debate with unbelievers who 
hoot works stopped when the last apostle passed away. 
A Christian life that is so shriveled that He could 
not enter, for sin which is their life or blood, is 
too weak to make a Christian out of. Therefore, many 



Getting Along Without the Devil. 31 

are they that are made to be taken and burned, for they 
are made to dishonor God. 

You may have the evidence of belief if God finds 
you watching for it. If you deny yourself this evi- 
dence you won't be convinced that it is God's good 
pleasure to give you the kingdom, and run off after 
power from men, then you manifest proof that His 
fierce anger is upon you. 

If 41. Men as natural brute beasts made to be taken 
and destroyed, speak evil of things they understand 
not, and shall utterly perish in their own corruption. 
2 Pet. 2:12. Anyone called a Christian worthy of this 
title is too noble and knows himself too weak to substi- 
tute for evidence, anything less than the testimony of 
Jesus, concerning evidence of belief. Mark 16:17. 

Some men would rather be known as agnostic, and 
wear the blemish that science and education have in- 
flicted upon his soul to be esteemed of men and for filthy 
lucre's sake, than to simplify matters by acknowledg- 
ing the truth of God's Word and gain heaven. 

A disciple of God is a servant of God who is suita- 
bly equipped in Spirit knowledge, as not to be indebted 
to the flesh, who is no beggar, fully clothed upon with 
power to resist unto blood. 

If 42. Admiration and Personalities. In the book of 
James, 5th chapter, we read: "If there be any sick 
among you let them call the elders of the church, and 
let them pray over them, anointing them in the name 
of the Lord, and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, 
and the Lord shall raise them up." 

Here we get instruction from the Divine healer — 
Christ — who does all things well. His message to the 
sick was for prayer, which He said shall save the sick. 
The evidence of this truth is allowed, for we have wit- 
nessed the truth ; for we have seen the Lord raise up 



32 Getting Along Without the Devil 

sick folks, fulfilling that prophecy. We know this to be 
the truth. 

But too many professing eldership have appealed 
to God in vain for the sick. This is to be accounted for 
only in one way. Such failure to follow is evidence he 
was not appointed of God, and not a believer. Jesus 
Christ saying, because I go to my Father, the things 
I do ye shall do in my name, as many as believe. I say 
it, if you believe, you can compel belief by showing peo- 
ple, as Jesus showed John the Baptist by works, who it 
was. These works began about ten days after His 
ascension and have not stopped. 

At Heb. 11 :2 : "By faith the elders obtained a good 
report." An elder appointed of the Lord will make a 
good report A God-appointed elder to act in such 
case as healing by faith is interested and no failures 
worthy to cause unbelief will follow. "There is a sin 
unto death, I say not to pray for this." 

Tf43. Too often it is a sumac, and not an elder, and 
appointed because of advantage, for much talk, or for 
his personality. N 

I can hardly refrain from calling names in the fore- 
going reference to an incident, where a self-appointed 
elder (these are sumacs), flowing with mental pictures 
of his own impressiveness, and as well pleased as any 
man without evidence could be, who had an audience 
without a preacher, and displeased with nobody only 
those who knew it. When his impressiveness had fully 
exhausted itself, and he had fully unaddressed himself, 
he came from off the rostrum — where he had no busi- 
ness but to talk — and told a sister, with discernment 
strong enough to hold him up (if he had allowed her 
to have kept him from falling spiritually) that she had 
a devil ; as though the sister didn't recognize him, for 
she had been discussing this ungenial nobody about 



Getting Along Without the Devil 38 

him for sometime, and only a few, not present, never 
knew he had not be miscussed.^^^^ 1 - 

This cobbled up cobbler, like too many shouldn't be 
anywhere, really got reckless and quit practicing. 

'{44. The self-anointed preacher, by dead works 
that never saw the light of God, insists on being heard, 
like the other blind man along the roadside of Holy 
Writ. 

I know real, God-appointed preachers in the church, 
but I do not, nor will ever believe that God turned His 
church affairs over to man. Down at Jerusalem the 
Lord added to the church daily such as should be 
saved; which comprised a silly lot that were seeking 
the kingdom of God, so says Beelzebub. His glorious 
Church is His, and His glory He will not give to anoth- 
er. If it is Dr. Grubb's church it belongs to Dr. Grubbs. 
If it is the Lords, it is not Dr. Grubbs'. 

1145. Those that are not the seed of Abraham — 
Christ's, neither know they holy hands ; are not stones 
of God's tabernacle, His Church, His House not made 
with hands. They that are pure in heart, in mind, 
are in God's kingdom, for they have found God. God 
will not be found, outside His kingdom, and men can- 
not be safe where God cannot be found. 

The eleven disciples knew His will and did it, for 
Jesus described them as He stretched forth His hand 
toward them, saying, "Behold my mother and my 
brethren." 

1146. Anyone can truly say, I am a Christian with 
the mind of Christ that can fearlessly claim the life 
He lived. 

Christ, the chief cornerstone, the apostles were the 
lively stones; first given to, or added to the corner 
stone, by the Father to build His Church. At 1st Peter 
2:5: "Ye also, lively stones, are built up a spiritual 
house." And at Eph. 2 :19 to 22 inclusive : "Those that 



34 Getting Along Without the Devil. 

are of this spiritual house, this kingdom of God, these 
lively stones, are of the household of God, have access 
by the Spirit of God the Father, built upon the founda- 
tions of the apostles and prophets, and with Christ the 
Chief cornerstone; the building ritly joined together; 
we grow to be a holy temple for a habitation of God 
through the Spirit." 

Tf47. The leaven of the Pharisees was hypocrisy. 
Luke 12:1. They prayed to be seen, they dressed and 
congregated themselves together to be heard for their 
knowledge of the law. They accepted baptism in water 
as purifying, for putting away the filth of the flesh; 
but turned away at the door to the kingdom. Christ is 
the door. Through the Spirit — God — the apostles 
found Jesus, and He kept them, the Father sent Him, 
except one. 

1f48. Luke 17:21: 'The kingdom of God is within 
you, you are in the kingdom or in the power of God, as 
with them. So if it be then, His power, Christ be in 
you, you are in the kingdom or in the power of God, as 
much as though you were the sun, the moon, the earth, 
a child. These are in His power and kingdom, but all 
who do wickedly, God's face is against him. The d<e 
controls, but he doesn't control that which is God's. 
"Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteous- 
ness, and all these other things shall be added unto 
you." Matt. 6 :33. 

The Pharisees were clean without, but within were 
full of dead men's bones. The apostles found the king- 
dom ; or the kingdom or power of God came to earth, 
and they were found of Him, as was prophesied by 
Isaiah. He taught them the constitution of His king- 
dom, which were the principles of His doctrine. He 
wrote it in their minds to do His will. If we are not 
doing His will we are not found of Him, for by the in- 
fluence of His principles when known, will be found by 



Getting Along Without the Devil. 35 

means of the Spirit, with which we have access to the 
kingdom of God doing His will. 

TT49. Foot washing is for those only who are known 
disciples of Christ, set aside for the Master's use; do- 
ing His will. This is the Lord's body — the Church. 

His body was clean, made clean inside, washed by 
His Spirit — washing of regeneration. But for the out- 
side, He had water for that. Water will not put away 
the filth accumulated in the filthy minds ; only His Spir- 
it will clean up the inside. The Pharisees used water 
on the outside dirt, and let their spirit go back to their 
Father. They were not ashamed of their slimy sin- 
soaked souls, but were ashamed of Jesus, whom they 
said was an impostor. The Jew said this principally 
because He had said, He and the Father were one, and 
told Phillip: "Who hath seen me, hath seen the Fath- 
er." They would not receive Him as God, as the Fath- 
er. Today, whoever rejects Jesus as the Father, rejects 
Christ as did the Jews, for He said, "I and the Father 
are one." 

Tf50. We must become complete in Him, for in Him 
was the fulness of the God-head complete. He that 
will do His will shall know ; shall know of the doctrine, 
and the doctrine will equip the seeker after righteous- 
ness and knowledge of God. Jesus told Pilate, they 
that are of the Truth hear my voice. The Levites are 
of the Truth. Such only shall be saved, all others are 
to be destroyed by the sword — the Word. 

If we do not understand the Word, we are not known 
of Him, and soon destroyed for lack of knowledge, for 
without the word of knowledge by the Spirit we can- 
not get understanding of the Truth, or knowledge of 
God sufficient to obey. 

1151. When compelled to live for God, is when we 
are doing His will,' and know it. When we can't get 



36 Getting Along Without the Devil 

along without the devil, is when we can't live without 
sinning, and know it. 

The Word of knowledge is a gift of the Spirit, and 
is important enough to compel belief, which means con- 
verted by evidence, convinced. 

When Peter was clothed upon with power he was 
convinced; he believed by preponderous evidence, and 
was converted and began to strengthen the brethren as 
Jesus told Him to do. But no man can be converted 
against his will. Professing belief that we have not 
gained by some sacrifice, destroys faith, and remains 
for some benefactor to make a sacrifice for us of his to 
the end that we be compelled, by evidence, to acknowl- 
edge the truth. 

1152. Christ said: "The children of this world are 
wiser in their generation, than the children of light." 
The children referred to of the world were stoics, 
and not of God's kingdom, or of His power; not to be 
guided by His Spirit, but were defenders of His law 
through Moses, and because of devotion to that law, 
the Law-giver said they were wiser, for He judged ic 
better to reverence the biography of a man than to 
prove by professing or rejoicing, as a protest in favor 
of belief, without evidence is reveling and disorder, 
and without respect to God. 

Those to whom the Law came, testified and wit- 
nessed for it. But to those of us who have not turned 
from the door to the sheepfold, bear witness in our- 
selves of light, for we reveal that which we receive in 
light. 

1153. The principle of Christ's doctrine must be un- 
derstood, then we have the light, and were never told 
to pass out of the light of His way, but were told to go 
on to perfection in the light of His way, into His king- 
dom, and this will we do if God permits. Heb. 6. 

We must know and have the complete benefit of His 



Getting Along Without the Devil. 37 

teaching. We must know the need of repentance, of 
the baptism, of laying on of hands, and of the resurrec- 
tion, and of the judgment, and faith toward God. 

Tf54. Those to whom the Law came testified and 
witnessed for the Law. Those to whom Christ is come 
have the Holy Ghost for a witness like the holy men of 
old had in the days when Scriptures were from the 
mouths of prophets. 

We never can pass to that point of perfectness, to 
charity, the bond of perfectness, before that we know 
to the full ; the substance related at 2 Peter 1:5, 6, 7, 
recited as His divine nature, and at 6th chapter of Heb. 
1, 2, 3, which is all that can be hoped to make of us, 
and is added to our faith, our spirit, and we grow in 
wisdom as Jesus grew in wisdom, and in favor with 
God. Jesus came from God, yet learned He obedience. 
Heb. 5:8. It is enough for the disciple to be even as 
his Master. Yet we are expected to become perfect, 
even as our Father is perfect. Matt. 5 :48. 

1155. This scripture at Heb. 6th chapter, puts us on 
the road to perfection. We must know first just what 
repentance meant to us; what both water and Spirit 
baptism means; the indication of the healing Spirit 
hand ; what resurrection of the dead was, and what He 
is to us; and of eternal judgment and the need of es- 
caping it here and now, and of our faith toward God. 

1156. Very straight is the gate, and few enter there- 
at, for narrow is the way; yet so plainly taught that 
fools read well, and go astray; these wayfaring shall 
not err therein. Isa. 35:8. It is the lack of under- 
standing His word, for one cannot believe what is not 
understood, no more than the words of a foreigner is 
able to compel belief unless understood. We have 
access to the Father by one Spirit, which gives us the 
knowledge of His word, and thereat, we are no longer 
strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the 



38 Getting Along Without the Devil. 

household of God. Eph. 2:19. And if a man wanders 
out of the way of understanding, according to God's 
word, he remains in the congregation of the dead. 

1157. This holy highway is the way taught us by the 
Spirit, that comes with the word of knowledge of the 
word, that became flesh. 

He that receives this knowledge of the word by the 
Spirit has the good soil — the Spirit — understands and 
bears fruit ; some an hundredfold. Matt. 13 :23. Those 
who counsel with His Spirit understand, get knowl- 
edge, the key to the kingdom, the door to the sheep- 
fold; go in and out and find pasture. The pasture 
is His truths, His mysteries of the kingdom, which is 
separate from the kingdoms of this world, the kingdom 
of the devil. 

At Job 38 :2 : "Who is it that darkeneth counsel by 
words, without knowledge." They are those that say, 
Lord, Lord, and do not His sayings to keep them. If a 
man says, I know the Lord and do not His sayings to 
keep them, is a liar; and these are they found at Matt. 
7 :22 : "Have we not prophesied in thy name, and done 
many wonderful works?" He answered, "Depart, I 
never knew you." Why? Christ was not in them to 
know them. If ye have not Christ ye are none of His. 
They were neither in the kingdom nor the kingdom in 
them. We have to be in the kingdom of God to know 
Him. 

TJ58. Let your light, your spirit, shine or show forth 
works, and that your fellowmen may know the truth 
as it was in Jesus, for He said, "The works that I do 
shall ye do by me; I say, as by Christ, for without me 
ye can do nothing." 

Before a man is convinced he doesn't know, he is a 
dark lantern, and when he is found giving no light im- 
mediately he is cleaned and filled and trimmed up to 



Getting Along Without the Devil. 39 

give light. He must receive light; thereupon he ex- 
tends, throws out light. 

Our light will shine. He never fails to be seen. He 
is easily distinguished from the other fellow, and if we 
prefer the other fellow He is as easily extinguished as 
He is distinguished. 

When He has taken up His abode in us the God- 
head is complete in us. Then He will not say I never 
knew you, for we are one with Him, and His Spirit is 
in us with the knowledge of His word, which is the key 
to the kingdom of God given to us by the Lord Himself 
that we may learn and grow in wisdom, dying daily to 
the things we once learned to love, but now are 
ashamed of. 

1159. God our Father will not deny us, but will love 
us if we do His will. St. John 14 :23. If we keep His 
word we do know He is in us to do this, for without 
Him this is impossible to do, and we are found yet in 
His primary class, in search of Him to do His will. 

His doctrine is so framed and so descriptive of His 
own nature in framing, that the seeker after righteous- 
ness shall be filled if He seeks diligently to this end. 

His principles are righteous, even His own right- 
eousness is in them, and as our desire increases to 
find God to do good, they unfold to us which is per- 
mitted by His Spirit. When He is found He finds us, 
then we go in and out of the sheepfold, and in doing so, 
others follow our lead. 

1160. We must go on from dependence in signs, to 
the power of knowledge, found in the kingdom of God. 

Stephen, the first disciple of Christ to be made a 
martyr for the kingdom of God, testified as he was 
being stoned. As one convinced he believed in God's 
word. His testimony was: "I see JJesus standing at 
the right hand of the Father." Stephen was with 
Jesus in all His ministry, and had personal attention of 



40 Getting Along Without the Devil 

God, and he knew. Today, we, by the right use of the 
allotted time, may know to be what Stephen was. He 
was what he was because he was convinced he had 
found the power of God — Christ — (1 Cor. 1 :24) , which 
is our faith, our righteousness and the righteousness of 
God. We need not be hasty to witness for Jesus, for 
our spirit will bear record with His Spirit in the dis- 
ciples, the testimony of His righteousness. 

1f61. A child of God may have great zeal, and de- 
light in pursuit of knowledge, but when the key to the 
kingdom is given him, which is the Spirit with the 
word of knowledge, he is drawn from the breast; no 
longer crying for a thing without a knowledge of its 
existence, but weaned from the milk — have the Spirit 
of God to know the things that be of God. 1 Cor. 2 :12. 

Peter was a child of God in great rapture, zealous 
to do His will, but the time came of great humiliation, 
when he stood corrected by a witness, that is of record 
this day, that a weak thing was used to confound the 
mighty, which convinced Peter he had been over-zeal- 
ous in this matter of doing without knowing. 

If Peter had been more deliberate, had exercised 
his mental capacity, which Paul called mind, he would 
have brought his over-zealous spirit into subjection, 
which was against the preparedness of his confused 
mentality, for he denied His Lord, who, so soon before 
had forefended him, but for his blind feelings. If 
Peter had been able to estimate the humiliation that 
his zeal was bringing on him before the test, he could 
have brought to naught the testimony of that chicken, 
that stands a reproof for his unguarded zeal. 

This rebuke for Peter is an open rebuke to all 
Christ's disciples, for if He would chastise Peter would 
He not chastise you ? The sequel. Let your yea be yea, 
and your nay be nay, and let us not bear His name in 
vain, which is an ineffectual life. 



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Tf62. Prov. 8:8: "All the words of my mouth are 
righteous." Christ was God, a Spirit in Jesus, that 
was righteous, and it was His righteousness in Solo- 
mon that proclaimed all my words are righteous. 

Prov. 8:9: "It's all plain to him that under- 
stands." To him that understands then, the mysteries 
of the kingdom of God are not hidden. If such an one 
glories he will glory in this, that he knows the Lord. 
Jer. 9 :24. 

1J63. When we understand His word we are made 
clean by it, and become pure in mind. If this is not 
the case, then we must let Daniel's version of it rule. 
At Dan. 12:10 is this: "The wicked shall not under- 
stand." 

A man who preaches the Word without understand- 
ing it, and takes a salary for it, is a fakir. He should 
read Dan. 12:10, and learn why he doesn't understand. 

We have no confidence in such deliverance from 
evil ; it's blind leading the blind. We must be justified 
by the Spirit of God, which means living in a fit state 
to receive His blessings. Whereupon His gift that 
sanctifies us must be the first blessing after justifica- 
tion. 

Sanctified by the Spirit of God means, we have been 
and are now set apart for use as one sent to perform a 
labor for the Lord. The morally good man cannot set 
himself or another aside for the Spirit's use, to bring 
about His rule and kingdom on earth. The Lord adds 
to His church such as should be saved. Man cannot 
set things in order in His church. If, and when set in 
order, it is always done by order of Spirit of God, al- 
though it be done by man. Every creature of God must 
be transformed in mind, set apart from the world of 
things. 

U64. Prayer and Fasting. Prayer is desire unut- 
t«red or expressed. Seek is desire unuttered or ex- 



42 Getting Along Without the Devil. 

pressed. Knock is desire unuttered or expressd. Ask 
is desire unuttered or expressed. Prayer is seek, ask, 
knock. To pray without ceasing, is either seeking, 
asking, or knocking continually for knowledge of God. 

Fasting is after desire or request is made known to 
God ; or, in other words, after that we have expressed 
desire, for God knows our needs before we ask. But 
our fast comes a task in spirit to observe while we 
wait ; or to perform after that we obtain in answer to 
searching, knocking, asking. 

After all and altogether, His action is our fast. We 
must fast for power, or wait for it, as the Apostles' 
inefficiency in their efforts to cast out devils was for 
the want of prayer, desire. More desire brings more 
power, and this is for our patience. Also, at that time 
their want or need of power was wholly due to the lack 
of knowledge, what that power was, and to get it. 

Jesus explained nothing, but told them, "This kind 
comes but by prayer and fasting." However, they 
were told by Christ, after His resurrection, to go down 
to Jerusalem, and there tarry until they were endued 
with power from on high. 

Now this tarry for power — this series of desiring, 
this something like ten days of prayer and fasting — 
brought power, and they realized immediately when 
power was received, and every disciple, by a demon- 
stration of the Spirit of promise, reflected God's Divine 
influence and complete mastery over the wisdom and 
weakness of the kingdom of this world. 

1(65. They went out in power and demonstration of 
the Spirit, in Christ the Demonstrator, the power of 
God, who was and is our God. 

Then and there Christ came back in the flesh, to 
complete the destruction of sin in the people, and set 
the captives of the devil free, who had been enticed 



Getting Along Without the Devil. 43 

from their first love, and had eaten of the forbidden 
fruit of the tree of knowledge — the serpent, the devil. 

The brain — the organ of the mind; the seat of 
knowledge of good and of evil — that part of the taber- 
nacle that is the temple of the living God; that will 
bring forth such fruit as it be immersed in, as watered 
by ; for that tree will bear what the spirit, or mind of 
that man thinketh. 

1J65. Christ, the power of God, our resurrection 
from the dead, is come to give us life for death; to 
overthrow sin, for sin is the seed of death, for the soul 
that sins it shall die. Sin is the sting of death, and is 
the power of the devil. Christ is the righteousness of 
God and the Lord God Himself, and is life for sin, was 
sacrificed on a tree that all men through Him, i. e., 
through His teaching, might be saved. But if the salt 
loses its saltness how shall it be salted. When the tem- 
ple is swept, cleaned and garnished is when sin is all 
taken away; which is the resurrecting power of God, 
and is His way of taking the kingdom by force — the 
evil spirit that was in man is driven out. 

The Man Christ must occupy the temple where sin 
dwelt, then it is He has taken the place of sin ; but if 
one will not have this Man Christ to rule them, they 
will not be governed by His counsel, His principles. 
Then they will pass away as they lived — a congrega- 
tion of dead men — evil spirit reserved unto fire. 

Every man must be judged according to the deeds 
done in the flesh by the word of God that became flesh. 
We can be made clean through His word here, and es- 
cape the judgment; or we can put away His counsel 
here and stand up for judgment in the end. He said 
let them go unto the end. 

H67. Every sin a man commits is without the body 
save for fornication. 

Then this is not a sin of the soul, but the body sins, 



44 Getting Along Without the Devil. 

and it, like the soul that sins, must die ; for from dust 
to dust thou shalt return, and death was passed on all, 
after the similitude of Adam's transgression, though 
they never sinned after this manner — death of the 
body. 

Adam's sin was a relative sin, a conjugal sin, com- 
plete in two of Divine origin ; not souls made to be tak- 
en and burned, but they, by disobedience, having God's 
counsel darkened, could not escape the curse of sin — 
death ; for when lust conceives it brings forth sin, and 
sin brings forth death. God knew that an improper 
desire was possible to be planted in both their lives, 
and they were forefended. God placed a second pen- 
alty upon the woman, for their transgression ; (Gen. 3 : 
16), child bearing. At Ps. 51 :5 : "Behold, I was shapen 
in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me ;" but 
this was not a sin of the soul of David's mother ; it was 
a sin after the similitude of Adam's transgression. 
Adam was taken in his own naughtiness. Prov. 11 :16. 
Tf68. First revelation to man. Therefore shall a 
man leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife. 
Adam declared this before Eve was mother or Adam 
was father. 

For blind people to see. 

Do you know the fruit of a tree today calculated to 
make man wiser, and that will cause death and shams ? 
God said, when He became flesh: "It's not what goes 
into the mouth that denies the man." Therefore, the 
fruit of a tree desired to make one wise, or a tree as 
food to defile or humiliate one, or cause one to disobey 
God, is without record, together with what Jesus, who 
was God, said : "It's not what goes into the mouth that 
defiles ;" so this is some help for the blind. 

So the serpent was in the Garden as the tree of 
knowledge, and the seed of death was in that fruit, 
and it gave them the knowledge of their nudity and a 



Getting Along Without the Devil. 45 

sense of shame. The two completed the wrong in the 
sight of God. God did not call sin to account until 
Adam was beguiled by Eve. Of course this was known 
to God, even Eve's weakness before she fell, is wrong, 
sin was not called to account and stopped when the wo- 
man fell. They were one flesh and as the sin had to be 
consummated to bring forth death, God must wait till 
it be completed in them before He could pass sentence. 
The man and the woman, both one flesh, partook of this 
fruit after the woman knew evil, for she had been told 
by Satan — the old serpent (the tree of knowledge) — 
that his fruit would cause them to become wiser. Fol- 
lowing after the serpent's wisdom they were of that 
tree of knowledge, and bore evidence of sin at the first, 
for they went into hiding. Both became trees of knowl- 
edge knowing good and evil. The fruit these children 
of sin brought forth — for they were fallen children — 
was sin, when the sin was consummated as designed by 
Satan, and this sin brought forth death to the trans- 
gressors and to their fruit ; for how can a corrupt tree 
bring forth good fruit. The curse upon the woman 
was child bearing. Gen. 3:16. And to Adam, God 
said, from dust thou art, to dust thou shalt return. 

Tf69. At Gen. 3:17, we read Adam's curse. It was 
what others of God's creatures were blessed in doing, 
and these first people at Gen. 1 :28 : be fruitful. The 
thing which was a curse to the two who were forbid- 
den to eat of the tree that was seen to have death in it. 
Gen. 2:15. Where to the first peoples, they were com- 
manded to eat of every tree, nothing reserved; every- 
thing very good for them for food. Child bearing was 
no curse ; eating herbs of field no curse to the first peo- 
ple as it was to Adam. Gen. 3 :18. 

God formed Adam out of the dust of the ground and 
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, or His own 
breath or Spirit. God in Christ Jesus said, "If ye have 



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not me ye hath not life in you ; your inheritance, the 
Spirit of God." 

1J70. Enoch was the next to walk with God, and 
he was not, for God took him, he did not see death, for 
he pleased God ; who left us the first prophecy which is 
found at Jude 14. 

Today we are commanded to eat of the Tree of Life 
that was in the Garden of Eden, and if we eat of His 
flesh, which is every word that proceeds out of the 
mouth of God, we have life ; are of Christ ; and without 
Christ — the Tree of Lif e — we have not life. 

If 71. The next to move out from the presence of 
the Lord God was Cain, who slew his brother, and who 
had to surrender his presence ; all he had, and his title 
was fugitive ; and cursed, and driven from the presence 
of God, marked with sin of murder. Cain feared the 
wrath and vengeance that was in men to do wrong that 
never knew God. But the mark saved Cain's life, for 
it was a mark of sin, and God knew these people were 
all sinners, and would only accept what He called sin- 
ner, or refugee. 

God knew these people that Cain fled to, but their 
indistinct lives, to us, are but shadows of Cain's fear 
of them ; while we know that men who don't know God 
are not to be trusted under all circumstances. But 
Cain, a branded sinner, went in among these Christ- 
less people ; married and did well, as men in sin will ex- 
press themselves today. Understand that Cain was 
the first transgressor of God's law taken captive by the 
devil, that Satan at once gave employment for trans- 
gressing God's law, and for their staunch support of 
his contradiction of truth. 

Cain married and begat Enoch and builded a city 
and named it Enoch after his son's name. Here Cain's 
biography is at an end for he never proved traitor to 



Getting Along Without the Devil 47 

the devil, for all who positively bid the devil good-bye 
never, never die. 

U72. Whatever is our arm of strength, becomes 
flesh to us, and we become servant of the hand that 
feed us. "Do not muzzle the ox that treads out the 
corn." An act out of harmony with the law of God is 
sin to all who know the law. People and individuals to 
whom the presence of the Lord is never manifest are 
without sin. 

The Apostle Paul said: "Had the law not said thou 
shalt not covet He would not have known sin." Jesus 
said : "If I had not come, they had not sin." Now He 
says, "They have no cloak for their sin." Flesh begot- 
ten in sin is the veil that exists between sin and eternal 
life, or Christ. A blind guide, or a leader of the blind, is 
truly a hypocrite who only through pretension — the 
cloak — can cover his ignorance, and goes on beguiling 
others that are blind, and all fall into the ditch. Jesus 
said : "Let these alone, they both fall in the ditch." 

1j73. The best thing for a disciple of Christ to do, 
if he would like to preach, is to ask God for under- 
standing ; not go to school and get learning from men. 
Paul said the word is written spiritually and must be 
discerned spiritually; not discerned by wayfaring men. 
Daniel said, a man who commits sin shall not under- 
stand. Then a man who does not understand is not a 
follower. He that knows my voice follows me. He 
that knows God's voice, or understands His words — for 
His word is His voice to us — keeps His sayings, and is 
living in a fit state to receive the blessings of God. 

1174. Overcomers are granted to sit with Him on 
His throne, as He overcame and sits with His Father 
on His throne. 

If we chastise ourselves and judge ourselves, and 
are made clean through the word, we have become liv- 



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ing sacrifices, made holy and acceptable unto God, 
which is our reasonable service. 

1175. The seal of God is Christ, and this seal is 
stamped in the temple of the living man of God, and is 
not tormented because of sin, nor can be, for this seal 
is evidence God knows us, and He cannot say, depart 
from me, I never knew you, for He puts His law in our 
minds to know Him. The law of God is the word of 
God and he that walks and lives in the word has Christ 
and bears His name, therefore his name is in the 
Lamb's book of life, and is written in the temple of 
heaven, which place is where Christ dwells. Jesus 
said: "In that day ye shall know that I am in the 
Father, the Father in me, and I in you." 

1176. To have the law of God put in our mind the 
Spirit of truth must enter in to divide the word, and 
keep the way of life. The way of life is the foundation 
for repentance, and the truth upon which is based the 
paradise of God; and the paradise of God is that spir- 
itual state of existence in earth where the tree of life — 
Christ — is communicative with the Father in His spir- 
itual state. This spiritual fellowship in spirit delivers 
into our minds the key of knowledge, and creates such, 
the elect of God, whereat these are complete in Christ, 
and inseparable ; hence know God as such who speak to 
God as the spirit prays, being in direct communication 
with the Spirit Father being done in spirit, for the 
power of God — Christ — or kingdom of God, is within 
you. Paul said: "Know ye not that your body is the 
temple of the Holy Ghost?" Truly it is true, narrow is 
the way that leads unto life, and few find life because 
of covetousness ; for if one loves, or the things of the 
world are enticing to him, the love of God is not in him. 

If 77. In judgment today the covetous loiters not, 
and his flattering tongue obtains without honor, and 
vexes the truth in some to live unrighteously that were 



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once clean, for hope in filthy lucre, wherein a victim 
expects to find freedom; but becomes the servant of 
corruption, having forsaken the right way and gone 
after the things of the world. 

Tf78. If we say we have no sin we lie; for Christ 
the Judge, who is able to convince the gainsayer, who 
is to judge, is able, by works, to prove all things, and 
if He is not abiding* then sin abides in His stead. One 
in whom Christ is, doth not sin, for He (Christ) is the 
Master over sin, and the problem of sinning is solved. 
A child of God is created by obedience to Him. A child 
of the devil is he who cannot live without sinning. If 
we confess our sins God is just to forgive. We confess 
our sins in the hope of being justified in the sight of 
God for confession; but we must know the Spirit be- 
fore Christ and God will take up their abode. Their 
Spirit, the Holy Spirit, is to be granted entire expres- 
sion. He must supervise and regulate with sole owner- 
ship of the temple, with no entanglements, or com- 
promising, fully equipped in understanding to accept 
the truth as it comes to him; some expression of 
praise, being cheerful, civil, agreeable, no murmurer, 
consistent, some fellow-feeling, no companionship with 
devils. 

1179. Let us go back and talk over the first trans- 
gression again. The manner in which the woman 
strayed off in sin, reads ; she was enticed to eat of some 
fruit Satan had. Right here remember that eat (a Bi- 
ble term) means understand. You know Jesus said: 
"Except ye eat my flesh ye have no life in you." In St. 
John, 1st chapter, that apostle said the word became 
flesh. How did the word become flesh? Answer. Mary 
conceived by the Holy Ghost. 

1180. Then to understand this manna from heaven, 
this flesh, or this bread from heaven, is to know the 
word ; for He says, "Except ye eat my flesh, the word, 



50 Getting Along Without the Devil. 

ye have no life." We must live by every word of His 
life. Jesus said, "Whosoever heareth these sayings 
of mine and doeth them, I will liken him unto a 
man, which built his house upon a rock." Matt. 7:24. 
You can see in these sayings of His, a foundation to 
buiid on, and to make a building not made with hands, 
made up of the word and the word put in your mind by 
His Holy Spirit to rightly divide or break this bread 
to convince the gainsayer. 

^181. We will return now and look over the sample 
fruit Satan beguiled or enticed Eve to eat, if there be 
any left over. Anyway Satan considered his knowl- 
edge more important to the woman than what she had 
from God for she was not ashamed, and his fruit, too, 
was well defined to Eve to equal and blend so well with 
her hopeful views of her mate, for God had never 
talked with Eve firsthanded. And the serpent to 
make all plain to the woman said, "God knows ye shall 
not die in the day ye eat thereof." This being such a 
contradiction of God's word, greater knowledge if the 
sin to eat of the tree of knowledge only laid in eating 
before she knew what death meant, or the conse- 
quences. Of course the knowledge as it came to her 
unfolded the conquences, but the joy and decidedly 
brighter views and happiness in living the tempter's 
plan more than balanced what she knew of death; and 
this was not a part of the fruit, consequently she must 
taste of death to understand the effect of eating of the 
forbidden fruit; and since the fruit was pleasant to 
the eye and admired, her fear of death was lost in 
pleasure. At all accounts the knowledge of evil was 
finally understood by the woman and she became fruit- 
ful, as a tree of evil will become when best conceived. 

This knowledge of sin very soon developed into 
modesty, for she discovered her body undressed, and 
was ashamed, but was not ashamed while she was with- 



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out sin. God said, "To the pure in heart all things are 
pure.'' You know there is such a t 3 fa.ee mod- 

es:y, and I believe this is the kind of modesty ene had, 
for s -t of the devil. 

Ihe devil had this in his fruit-cake, no doubt 
too. Even today the best fruit of the devil's knowledge 
is to make fun of the workmanship of God ; His handi- 
work in forming man; the way He has of speaking 
light of the image of God, and no doubt hinted Eve 
would look better, according to his notion, and folks 
still hold to the serpent's view, that the naked form is 
loathsome enough to so displease the sexes; that it 
w r ould effectually hinder lustful desire, hence the face 
powder, the waist form corsets, shoulder braces, ab- 
dominal supporters, trusses and so on, together w T ith 
nobby suits as covering in all, up to making the rough 
and ugly forms of gods pleasant, and to be admired, 
more attractive; enough so to cause one to lust after 
another. 

1J83. You know too, besides fine clothes or fine 
feathers, making fine birds, fine clothes and the title 
well-to-do, or the wealthy Mr. or Mrs. So-and-So, is an- 
other covering for sins of the serpent. These cloaks 
w T ill hide sin for some folks. I will say, without excep- 
tion, the only exception (when there is no sin to hide), 
even in the church the devil believes in covering up. 
"I will destroy thee covering Cherub, says God, thou 
wast perfect until iniquity was found in thee; thine 
heart was lifted up because of thy beauty." 

1T84. The Cherub in the Garden of God knew only 
good, until iniquity w<as found in her ; and because she 
did not use this talent God took it from her ; and when 
God came to that generation of sinners in the man Je- 
sus, He proclaimed them a generation of vipers ; they 
had not lost the hiss of the serpent — their contempt for 
God. They had not lost the vanity and pride in their 



52 Getting Along Without the Devil. 

coverings, and they were very attentive to outside or 
worldly features, and the platter outwardly, was kept 
clean for show, inwardly they were full of dead men's 
bones, and ravening wolves. 

Ti'85. "The wicked shall not understand." When 
Eve sinned, and God removed man far from Him, and 
repented His creation of man, men who did, and men 
who did not sin after the manner of Adam's trans- 
gression, death, the result of that sin, was passed on 
ail alike, they had not the wisdom of God to understand 
Him and His sayings, being void or separated yet from 
the knowledge of God till He came again in Jesus, He 
found Nicodemus unable to understand when He would 
tell him of His kingdom, for God in Christ, knew that 
men then were in understanding, where He left Adam 
without hope, to perish for lack of knowledge. 

1T86. Satan, the old serpent, the tree of knowledge, 
defeated the rule of God's principles at first. In the 
first two, Satan planted the seed of fornication ; it was 
sov/n in the brain, the flesh, the organ of the mind, and 
He, Satan of it, fornication, reaps the fruits of the 
flesh. Begin to read at Gal. 5:19 to 21. All this is the 
harvest for the old destroyer, and the result of the fruit 
of sin found in the first two transgressors after the af- 
fections and lust of the flesh were planted in their 
store-house of knowledge which separated them from 
God. They that are Christ's are God's, and as long as 
they (the first two) were God's, walking with God in 
the Spirit, they did not fulfil the lust of the flesh. To- 
day if we are Christ's, we have crucified the flesh, with 
the affections and lusts thereof. 

1T87. God repented making man, and by water de- 
stroyed the flesh and the affections thereof. "I will de- 
stroy man whom I have created." Gen. 6 :7. "The end 
of all flesh is before me." Gen. 6:13. "I will destroy 
them with the earth." 



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Noah found favor, built the Ark saved as by water, 
him and three sons, their wives, and his own wife. Be- 
fore the flood, the earth was cursed, filled with vio- 
lence and corruption. Noah was a great man, and 
Noah walked with God. When a thing is corrupt, is 
violent, the thing or a person must come to the place 
of destruction, where it and that corruption must cease 
to exist, until the knowledge of the glory of God cover 
it, or fill it as the waters cover the sea. 

The knowledge of the glory of God is to know His 
will is done in the earth, in man ; for they of earth who 
glory in their shame, whose God is their belly, whose 
end is destruction, are known ; for the glory of God is 
departed from them (His Spirit) for they cease to cry 
unto God, ''My father thou art my guide." Jer. 3:4. 
"For the ways of men are not in themselves, it is not 
in man to direct his steps." Jer. 10 :23. "Sin is a re- 
proach to any people, but righteousness exalteth a peo- 
ple." Lovingkindness and righteousness is my delight, 
saith the Lord. 

"Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, 
nor the man of might in his power, or the rich man in 
his wealth, but let him that glories, glory in this that 
he knows and understands me, that I am the Lord, and 
that my glory will I not give to another, for the glory 
of man is as the flower of the grass." 

Today, as in Paul's day, the glory of men that glory 
in the flesh ; woman is their first glory, while all men, 
or him or her (men means women too) if they glory, 
let them glory in that they know the Lord, and under- 
stand. Whom shall He make to understand doctrine? 
Them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from 
the breasts (Isa. 28), that no longer depend on milk 
for sustenance. 

"None that do wickedly shall understand." 
The first transgressors led captives at the devil's will, 



54 Getting Along Without the Devil. 

into captivity, and the devil was God, for if they 
(Adam ana Eve) lacked wisdom, they consulted or 

'erred with trie tree of knowledge, for they v 
driven from putting forth the hand to the tree of Life. 
Tf88. No doubt Adam and Eve continued in the 
Garden many years, even for centuries, and the influ- 
ence of God's Spirit upon their lives and memories, 
was a great encouragement for their offspring to call 
upon God for deliverance from evil, and why too, that 
God became mindful of them. For they no doubt 
breathed the same prayer David did, that God should 
not leave their souls in hell, for they had been brought 
to naught by Satan. 

1189. Judgment is already come to overcomers, for 
these are they which came up out of great tribulations 
and have washed their robes, and made them white in 
the blood of the Lamb. 

The overcomers , robes or garments are their spot- 
less temples which have been kept unspotted from the 
world, and have brought them forth a living sacrifice, 
holy and acceptable unto God, who is the overcomer of 
sin, even Christ. 

1f90. The power of God— Christ (1 Cor. 1:24). 
who was Jesus, interpreted (Emmanuel) Matt. 1:23, 
God with us; said at John's scripture, 16:33, be of good 
cheer, I have overcome the world. 

We must exercise power over all evil and come to 
the throne of grace boldly. We are eligible, with pow- 
er over all unrighteousness, when we have the over- 
comer, the Spirit that was in Jesus, the Spirit of God. 
Tf91. Who was justified in the Spirit? Jesus. 

What was manifested in the flesh? God. 

Why was God manifest in the flesh? To set thi 
captives of the devil free. 

How was God manifest in the Spirit? By Christ 
who was God in Jesus. 



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God was preached to the Gentiles as who? As 
Christ of God, born of God, born of the Spirit. 

Why was God believed on in the world. For His 
works through the word, which became flesh — Jesus. 

Why was God preached to the Gentiles? His own 
received Him not. 

Tf92. When we have Christ we have both the Fath- 
er and the Son. If a man can't live without sin, he 
can't get along without the devil. 

1(93. We can have the Father, the principal of the 
God-head, the one Jesus said would draw us to Him. 
We can have Christ, who gave us the knowledge of 
having power, the Holy Ghost, the third part of the 
God-head, and yet lack this power in ourselves before 
that we are weaned from the milk, or drawn from the 
breast. 

Knowledge becomes power to us as we become com- 
plete in Him and we know He is found in us, that keep 
His sayings and do His will. Then He confers with us, 
and upon us He places His power, that moved upon the 
apostles when Pentecost was fully come. 

U94. The apostles before Pentecost was fully come, 
were not influenced by the Holy Spirit, but by the flesh. 
If they could have pleased God by works of the flesh, 
they would not have been directed to Jerusalem, and 
endowed with power: no longer enslaved, wayfaring 
and fools, and fearful and slow to believe, whose feet 
were not guided, but did err. But when the Holy 
Ghost was come to them, to influence and regulate and 
control them, and lead them, they revealed the power 
of God in them : and by Him was brought to pass 
through them, the results of prophecy, His mighty 
works, signifying the truth (Christ) was come again. 

^[95. The Holy Ghost is the substance of the vine 
(Christ) called power of God, and when He related to 
them the office of the Holy Spirit they were to be com- 



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forted by, we find they were to have a new birth first, 
and then power. But right theln they were being 
comforted by what was to corne, and He said, Lo, I 
am with you even to the end of the world. 

1[96. The end of the world is, when the elements of 
the world (of the people) are consumed of the Lord's 
will ; which is as a wall of fire about the saints, chas- 
tising them, taking from them, and giving instead, 
knowledge to add to themselves the good as it comes 
to them from Him. 

How they might (the saints) live upon the ele- 
ments of Christ; (the principles of His doctrine) in- 
stead of subsisting upon manna of the wilderness, that 
is the elements of the world, the wisdom of men. 

If 97. The wisdom of man stands behind nothing 
that has its, or his existence obscure from observation, 
and he (man) in trying to protect what he has in his 
possession, is unconsciously destroying and getting 
more to destroy, influenced by a spirit that controls 
him, sent from God, to complete prophecy of the de- 
struction by burning of the elements. 

Man's appetite for things of this world ; by the de- 
sire for possession ; by gain and keeping, and its pleas- 
ures realized, is quickened or begotten by things pos- 
sessed. 

fi98. All this desire is to burn up, to be destroyed 
by blind devotion, (a strong delusion) by fervent love 
towards what he has to sustain life. For this love and 
affection, the result of man's understanding of truth, 
which he loves, which he possesses, and is his life, he 
often hinders by blind protection., growing out of blind 
devotion (a strong delusion) often to the destruction 
of both him that hath, and hath not, and of the thing 
protected. 

1J99. The Lord hath removed man far from Him, 
and there is a great falling away in the land, yet in it 



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shall be a tenth that shall return, and bring forth as 
a tiel tree, so the Holy seed shall be the substance 
thereof — of the Land. 

TI100. Not all Israelites were Israels, neither now 
by the righteousness of one are all made righteous; 
some are built to honor, and some to dishonor ; for only 
Spirit-filled and truly devoted of God are able to ex- 
ercise spirit privileges — I mean, able to confer with 
the Spirit of God. 

IflOl. These kind are out of harmony with the prin- 
ciples set forth by men. But God says His ways are 
not man's ways. 

Doctrines, opinions, creeds, examples of men, and 
anyone having his or any man's person (through the 
knowledge of any science or by his or her education) 
in admiration, is a disallowed principle in the word of 
God. If we reap men's ways we reap corruption, and 
are become entangled in the footsteps of men, are way- 
faring, and fearful and fools in God's opinion express- 
ed by Jesus who was God. 

1(102. If we are united to the world and our hope is 
in the power of men, we are cursed and are entered 
into condemnation, influenced by the gain of the world. 
The proof of the above is at Jer. 17 :5 : "Cursed is the 
man that trusteth in man, etc." 

In the world of things, among peoples of all na- 
tions, we find a king in all circles, everybody enslaved 
and the king is known by the voice of the people; if 
their king is flesh they follow him in vain, if their 
king is Jesus they are a prisoner of Christ's. 

11103. Doctrines, creeds and such, of men have 
more prisoners than Christ, but these kind are the first 
and the last to deny this. 

1J104. Now to prove a person taken captive to creed 
or a doctrine that does not comprise all the princi- 
ples set forth which complete the only doctrine, for 



58 Getting Along Without the Devil. 

there is but one doctrine and that doctrine is the doc- 
trine of Christ's principles set forth at Heb. 6:1, 2, 3. 

1T105. A man who wants to get to heaven by or 
through some religious sect and should fail to find in 
that sectarian unit the principle to suit his clothes to 
make the trip in, will either have to change his mind 
or his clothes, for there is nothing up there man made. 
The innocent blood had to be shed on Calvary to settle 
these controversies. "No greater love hath a man, 
than he lay down his life for his friends." 

11106. If that doctrine of yours is not the whole 
doctrine of Jesus Christ it is sin, "for that which is not 
of faith (Christ) is sin." 

To come out of sin we must separate ourselves 
from it, come to Christ through all He taught. If we 
break the least command of Christ's, we are unworthy. 
He said ye are my disciple if ye do whatsoever I com- 
mand you, no excuse given, none taken. 

1J107. Authority given, lends arrogance to despots. 
Men and nations have grown despotic, and confidence 
disfigured; becoming hateful, to where their authori- 
ty became so perverted ; that doubts developed into re- 
lief through revolt. But where men will consult with 
God in all things, they will not place themselves or 
their words, into the keeping of great jurists — LL.D.'s, 
that are only Christian so-called; since Job said it is 
not in man to direct his own steps. No man should be 
placed in authority that is marked by sin, or ashamed 
to be called Christian. 

11108. If the laws of any nation are not enacted 
by, and enforced by Christians, or in other words, real 
doers of the word of God, how can that nation be 
called Christian. When we find an army of office 
holders, and none but sinners in judgment, how can 
we expect righteous judgment; for sin is of the devil, 
having the spirit of the world, never coming into the 



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knowledge of the truth, (knowledge of Christ). No 
sinner has a right to a choice between heaven and 
hell, for they have the spirit of the world, and cannot 
know the things of God. 1 Cor. 2:12. At St. John 
15:16, God chooses, for God draws to Him by His 
foreknowledge of such, as are worthy. 

HI 09. Hell is the abode of evil spirits Mark 5:9) 
and that abode is flesh. 

HI 10. The world is the people, the people, the flesh, 
born of the flesh; formed in sin; shaped in iniquity; 
thus sin has taken on form, and that form is flesh, born 
of the flesh. St. John 3 :6. 

If 111. The only choice the man of sin has is choos- 
ing what kind of sin his nature is best adapted to exe- 
cute or effect for Satan, and be genteel enough about 
it to be respected and called Christian. If you want 
a job of lying for the devil, don't get the lie too large 
for Christians to believe, you'll displease Him. 

f 112. The devil has no choice and takes everything, 
makes no promise for services, as it would necessi- 
tate him keeping his word. He lends relief on life in- 
stallments; when transfer of loan becomes necessary 
he takes over the lease, and usurps the lessee, for in- 
terest on loan. 

If 113. The devil planned to grant Jesus the whole 
plantation, for an unmentioned period; Satan's lease 
not having terminated, and is yet subletting, but the 
sacrifice was too great for the Lord to make, knowing 
the old lessee had but a short time to execute power. 

If 114. Jesus would have none of his goods at the 
price. But other men unlike Jesus will, who, like* 
David, must cry out to the Lord to not leave his soul in 
hell, for listening to the devil. 

111 15. David fell to murder, sold out to the devil, 
had a soul to obey sin, found in the flesh, in hell; and 
prayed that it be not left therein. In Mark 16:17, In 



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my name they shall cast out devils. Out of what? Out 
of unbelievers' bodies, the abode of evil spirits, hell. 
Mark 5:9. 

1[116. My sheep hear my voice, and they follow me, 
Jesus said. If a man is a follower of Jesus he cannot 
commit sin, for he follows the Master, knows His 
voice, and is a doer of it, if he is a follower of Him. 

11117. How can we hope for God's kingdom to be 
set up in earth, if we had not the knowledge to know 
His voice. To know His voice is to know when Christ 
speaks as an angel — a ministering spirit. 

11118. Can a man hope to hear come, so long as he 
is an acknowledged sinner? The hope of the sinner is 
gain, and truth to him is unfruitful. Man power is the 
accumulated substance of physical effort, growing out 
of recorded deeds of men ; dedicated to the thing found 
to be a facsimile of power caused by the fall of man. 
The law at the first, or power at the first, had it impos- 
sible for man to cease to exist ; but the old deceiver, the 
old serpent; the tree of knowledge, came upon the 
scene with the fruit, or knowledge of a fruit; that 
death was found in, and was placed before the inno- 
cent, uncovered cherub (read Ezekiel 28:13, 14, 15) 
which by reason of its application to her, did enlight- 
en her, and caused her to become more to her mate 
than she had been ; but less to God. Such praise is not 
commendable, for it came through transgression of 
God's law. 

H119. If for every reason, a thing is to be admired, 
no transgression is found in obtaining that fruit. But 
the fruit of the serpent, had the sting of death in it, 
the devil coveting the works of God; the fruit of His 
hands. Satan's covetous nature found in the two 
transgressors, discovered through shame, God satis- 
fying it, furnished skins to clothe them. Knowledge of 
sin was the sting in the fruit, and Apostle Paul said, 



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I had not known sin had the law not said thou shalt 
not covet. 

H120. Covet means to wish eagerly for a thing, or 
to do a thing. If a man knows God's law, he will not 
choose between any two things of earth. Paul's desire 
for things of men. of earth, was at an end when he 
knew the law forbid desiring them, and doing by or 
for them. We must not live by doing evil to live. We 
must not learn by doing evil to know. We must not 
have by doing evil to obtain. We must not desire en- 
joyment that lust wall bring. 

U121. The lawgiver left us to learn we must not 
live by stealing, nor killing, nor fornicating, and so on. 
A man who is not living off of his disobedient princi- 
ples, something for nothing, or satisfying passion at 
the expense of health and virtue in no way, is no viola- 
tor of God's command, thou shalt not; but will miss 
eternal glory by omitting the thou shalt, for there are 
more of these than there be of shalt nots. 

1J122. What is there of the house not built with 
hands if all the nots were taken out of it? There are 
more thou shalts than shalt nots. So like the frightened 
horse on the bridge, fearful of falling off on one side, 
was careful enough to fall off on the other. So like- 
wise, in delivering ourselves from hell by not doing 
evil, escape heaven for the same reason, for not doing 
for God ; all our time taken up in not doing evil, which 
does not satisfy God. 

1J123. He who has no confidence in the flesh will 
never shy at the word, will walk in the middle of the 
way and not fall at either side of it. To fall by the 
wayside (the wayside is the world) is to fall by all 
that is in the world, being the lust of flesh, and the 
lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, and is not of 
the Father, but is of the world. 1 John 2:16. 

"When lust conceives it brings forth sin," there- 



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fore Paul is well understood to mean that he has ex- 
plained, wnen we read his scripture to mean tnat tne 
flesh is unsuitable to Goa; or tnat as Paul wrote, "the 
flesh cannot please God." 

11124. Understand it's the brain (flesh) of man, the 
organ of the mind that must serve one master, where 
originates evil tendencies, and is where sin is found 
and condemned, for Paul said the wisdom of men is 
foolishness to God. The wisdom of man is found in 
corruption, according to the word of truth, and in 
serving God, their own persons are in admiration, 
themselves walking in the flesh with evil tendencies. 

1(125. When we say one is walking in the flesh, we 
mean they are doing a few things at least to be ad- 
mired which is not of God, and he that sows to the 
flesh, he that will bow the knee to receive honor of 
men, will reap that which we esteem if we continue 
steadfast long enough, having brains that are corrupt 
enough. Just how much brains, or just how corrupt, 
or how long to continue, will depend on how much time 
we have to fool away ; and this will depend upon brain 
decay, whether it's been corrupted or can be. 

1(126. If our brain can be corrupted, corrupt things 
by the wayside will do it, for they soon become moth- 
eaten, and rust and decay are seen. 

As the brain is the organ of the mind, we need to 
have a sound brain, with no decayed spots or sore 
places, that cause withering and flinching, and falling 
away by exposure to things along the wayside, (of the 
world). God has no abiding place in corrupt things. 

K127. At Prov. 21 :16 : The man that wandereth out 
of the way of understanding shall remain in the con- 
gregation of the dead. Then at Heb. 10 :26 : After that 
we receive the knowledge of the truth are in His steps, 
hear His voice; not fallen by the wayside, (not enticed 
by anything of the world) ; then if and when the fall 



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takes place willfully and knowingly, there is nothing 
further the word can do, and they remain in the con- 
gregation of the dead. 

1J128. In reading God's word we often find this ex- 
pression of authority, Thou shalt not, and it's to those 
only, worthy of catechising. If we are not corrected, 
then we are not God's sons by adoption — disciples. 
Disciples of God, or adopted sons, are created by obe- 
dience, and stand approved through instruction of the 
word in which they must continue to remain a disciple. 
St. John 8:31. 

11129. If found flinching and hating the knowledge 
of the word for correction, for chastisement; we are 
become bastards in that we fail to apply the rod to our- 
selves. We wander out of the way (out in the world) 
into the congregation of the dead having evil spirits, 
which condition is hell, as hell is where evil spirits 
dwell, or their abode. 

11130. Where is the devil? Walking up and down 
the earth seeking whom he may devour. Whom would 
he devour? Those who resist him. What is his will? 
That man neglect salvation. We cannot serve God in 
spirit, or with the spirit that will not stand for correc- 
tion and reproof of the truth, the Scriptures. The 
Spirit of God is set over the mind of man to compel 
obedience. Rom. 1:9. See what Paul writes. God is 
my witness whom I serve with my spirit. The Spirit 
of God controls man the moment that a man can live 
without the devil, but no man can live without the devil 
that can't live without sinning. 

1)131. God can use the brain, the organ of the mind, 
that will obey God. 

A one-story head is a business or commercial head, 
and can't serve God without a salary, the salary being 
the response, / will Lord; it's not the spirit that Paul 
served God with. 



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U132. Of course God must have the use of one's 
head ; where the brain, the organ of the mind, is found, 
so if you have no head God can't use you, for He must 
have a place for His mind, and it must be swept, 
cleaned and garnished. It must be a holy place having 
no evil tendencies, for the evil tendencies are depraved 
germs, conceived in lust, and indicate a yielding to 
sin, that can be seen to exist in expression of faces, 
which is mental reflection. 

1[133. The depraved germs of Paul's brain that in- 
fluenced him to act for Satan, were cast out as evil 
spirits ; and he took on the new mind. 

H134. The mind of Christ and the new man was re- 
newed day by day, and he declared he died daily, which 
we must do in like manner after we have put on the 
new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the 
image of Him that created him; (Col. 3:10) meaning 
spirit that is born of the Spirit. 

U135. The spirit of Paul's mind was recreated, the 
mind of Saul was lost; taken away, its old habitation 
swept, cleaned, and garnished, and at once was a new 
creature, created by the Lord, and at once asked what 
to do. He that will do my will shall know. This is 
God's reply to all who ask wisdom of Him. Dan. 12 :10. 
You read it, he that does wickedly shall not understand. 

If 136. The depraved germs of Paul's mind (devils) 
that influenced him to act for Satan, were cast out, 
and he took on the mind of Christ, and the new man 
was renewed day by day, (Col. 3:10) which we must 
do in like manner, after v/e have put on righteousness, 
then we must know 7 how to live with that as our life. 

11137. Russellism exposed. Does the word of God 
teach a man can sin, and go on in sin, not repent, die 
in sin and then accept righteousness, become a guest 
to the marriage feast, clothed in that robe, unspotted 



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from the world? The word of God doesn't teach this. 
There is one scripture, remember it, Heb. 9 :27 : As it 
is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the 
judgment. Heaven is no place to bring sinners to re- 
pentance. Jesus said, speaking to sinners here, "Ex- 
cept ye repent ye shall all likewise perish/' 

1J138- Jesus was put to death in the flesh, but by the 
Spirit, or God, and Christ in Jesus (the resurrection 
life) he was resurrected, that we, by His resurrected 
life, might escape, which is the foundation for repent- 
ance, for justification and for the spirit-baptism, not 
that all this is for rooting up and putting away the 
filth of the flesh ; that when that is done, he might hear 
well done ; but he must be able to answer God's call to 
the instructed, that His principles have taken root, that 
these talents have brought forth, that complete His 
doctrine, that creates and makes new. This is the 
answer of a good conscience, for it shows one to be 
fertile, and can say, Lord, my two talents have gained 
two other talents. 

TT139. One who will tie up his opportunity to an- 
swer God, why he fails to add to his gift; the reason 
he will have ; can be no better than, Lord, your disci- 
pline is so severe, you are able to save me, you died 
that I might have life. Why should my efforts to pro- 
vide for myself be required. He that will do his will 
shall know of the doctrine; and this doctrine came by 
the resurrection of Jesus Christ to us, for no man's 
conscience void of God that was in Christ ; can answer 
when He calls, for no man can say, I know Him, who 
keeps not His sayings to do them. The word of truth 
(the word of God) is not in him, and cannot answer to 
a good conscience of God toward God, having not the 
knowledge of God; but may be clean, and a morally 
clean man, yet lack understanding to make him fruitful 
in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, that he 



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might become a doer and never fall, then he has the 
answer of a good conscience, or a good report to God. 

^140. Though 1 bestow all my goods, give my body 
to be burned, understand all mysteries, etc., and have 
not charity it's of no profit. If any man minister let 
him do it as of the ability which God giveth. 1 Pet. 
4:11. 

1T141. The ability we obtain that God gives one, can 
be had through the knowledge of principles Ke taught 
in His ministerings, and through His apostles and 
teachers and prophets, being enumerated at Heb. 6: 
1, 2, 3. Now then, charity is this, that only God will 
recognize, that will cover any multitude of sin, is to 
minister to the holy ones to be called saints of God, the 
gift as it comes to you, (revelation) for all are not 
teachers. But all teachers sent from God with the gift, 
must minister, that God be glorified in all things, to 
whom be all praise. 

11142. The multitude of sins to be covered are 
where? This multitude of sins to be covered are not 
in the holy ones in the saints of God. 

The multitude of sins are to be covered with the 
knowledge of the Lord. The knowledge of the Lord is 
to be found only of the Lord, and through revelation, 
and the saint or holy one of the Lord's, is to be so filled 
with that knowledge that the nakedness, or nothing- 
ness, or the multitude of sins of earth are not effective, 
for the love of right, the love of God is in the saint to 
minister good to the saints, as it comes to them, and 
they have no fellowship with devils ; therefore, and on 
this wise charity (ministering) effects the covering 
from sin, or the covering of sin. 

V143. This ability to separate ourselves from the 
elements of the world is a gift from God, let us glorify 
God on this behalf. 

By this separation from sin, virtue, knowledge, 



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temperance, patience, Godliness, brotherly kindness, 
follow naturally and with charity, the substance with 
ability ; or knowledge with power, we discover His abil- 
ity which is charity, which is God, if God permits. God 
is not unrighteous to forget your labors, but there are 
no permits granted the slothful, but to the followers of 
them who through faith and patience inherit the 
promises. 

11 144. Charity is a messenger, a minister of Divine 
service, bringing the saints of God into training to dis- 
pense the gifts for the perfecting of His church. 

Charity is our guarantee, or our bond of perfection, 
which makes our calling and election sure. The seal 
of God is set upon the work of charity for it is the 
power of God unto salvation. Though I bestow all my 
goods to the poor and have not charity, it profiteth me 
nothing. 

*|145. We must be created in the image of God, 
created in Spirit, or born of the Spirit. St. John 3 :5. 
To be born of the flesh is a carnal birth, and to be car- 
nally minded is death. To be born of the Spirit is to be 
spiritually minded, and to be spiritually minded is life. 
One who is spiritually minded has received the 
Spirit of adoption, and as many as are led by the Spirit 
of God, are the sons of God by adoption, are the called 
according to His purpose. 

In paragraph 139 (tying up the gift) and in para- 
graph 138, able to answer God's call. I refer to para- 
graph 139 first as the carnally minded. Paragraph 
138 is the spiritually minded ; able to answer God's call 
according to His purpose or to His will, then we can 
answer to God out of a good conscience, knowing His 
will and doing it. 

1T146. When our minds are clothed upon with ability 
that is from God, our brain cells cannot conceive of 
lust, influenced by evil spirits; for He has blessed as 



68 Getting Along Without the Devil. 

with all spiritual blessings that we might sit with Him 
if we hold fast our confidence or trust in Him as Job 
said, though He slay me I will trust him. Peter's ex- 
pression of confidence was to whom shall we go? St. 
John 6:68. 

1F147. Jesus said, "I am that manna that came down 
from heaven," and "If ye eat not my flesh ye have no 
life in you." 

In the beginning was the word, and the word be- 
came flesh, and the word, if understood rightly, means 
Spirit, for that is God which is in us by the resurrec- 
tion of Jesus Christ who was God, and is come in the 
flesh that we might live by Him who is our bread. 
When broken (i. e.,) when understood (this bread) 
our life is hid in His life, we become one bread (i. e.,) 
one mind and one body in Christ. 

11148. When it happens we understand we are able 
to answer to a good conscience, knowing the will of 
God and doing it according to His will, are made par- 
rakers of this bread from heaven (the word), then if 
we fall away, it is impossible to renew us again unto 
repentance. Why? For having received all and de- 
stroyed all, nothing remains, for all He had to sacrifice 
has been offered for sin, and we cannot be comforted 
anew, so the last state of that man is worse than the 
first. He became as one raised from the dead and cast 
Himself down, or became a cast-away. 

1J149. PauPs remark, can we who are dead to sin 
live any longer therein ? God forbid. 

'The man that wandereth out of the way of under- 
standing, shall remain in the congregation of the 
dead." Judas Iscariot was with Jesus for more than 
three years ; he understood, knew more about the pow- 
er of God through Jesus, than did John the Baptist, (no 
greater prophet born of woman), and for thirty pieces 



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of silver, sold out to the devil, and remained in the 
congregation of the dead. Prov. 21:16. 

r 150. The soul that sins is placed in the congrega- 
tion of the dead, for it has wandered out of the way of 
understanding, is in torment, in hell, and may remain 
therein, but God will have compassion on whom He 
will, but if He will not pardon, then this evil doer's 
body goes to dust, the soul from captivity to Satan, in 
the flesh, unto that congregation of dead, in torment, 
in hell beyond, where evil spirits dwell, made to be 
taken and burned until hell delivers up her dead. 

Our Master said, let the dead bury the dead. These 
are ever learning and never come into the knowledge 
of the truth, for they have the spirit of the world, 
while the spirit of truth is not of the world, therefore 
they have not, nor can know, or get the knowledge of 
the truth. 

Paul, at 1st Cor. 2:12, said we have not received 
the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, 
that we might know the things that are freely given 
to us of God, and at the next verse ; which things also 
we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teacheth, 
but which the Holy Ghost teacheth: comparing spirit- 
ual things with spiritual things. 1st Cor. 2:13. 

1J151. If we speak evil the truth is not of us. If we 
have the spirit of the world we know not God. If we 
speak the truth and it reveals evil, we must compare 
spiritual things with spiritual things, for we must 
judge to know between the two, for both evil and truth 
are spiritual. If we have not the spirit of the world 
we will know and choose truth. If we have the spirit 
of the world we will choose evil. By this rule we know 
as we are known. 

r 152. The Garden of God is a spiritual state, where 
regenerated man with God's spirit within walks with 
God, as did Enoch, and he preached God. Enoch talked 



70 Getting Along Without the Devil. 

with God, and knew as he was known. In this sancti- 
fied state or spiritual life, we have learned to know the 
things that are of God, in a cultivated state of exist- 
ence. In a state of communion or fellowship with Him, 
know Iiis voice, understand His ways, and we know as 
we are known. 

1|153. The field is the world, and the world is the 
people, and a disciple of God is not of the w r orid, for 
they know God (Spirit). The world is the field, or 
the people is the field; they understand not the good 
seed that is sown in the heart, are not taught or learn- 
ed, are unlearned in the Divine nature of God, are de- 
stroyed for lack of knowledge (spiritual knowledge). 
The field is the uncultivated trees, or the tares, the 
children of the devil. The trees of the garden are the 
good seed of the kingdom ; are in the paradise of God, 
(a state of communion), and we know as w 7 e are 
known. This is walking with God knowing as we are 
known, for the earth shall be filled with the glory of 
God. Hab. 2:14. Man is the glory of God. 1st Cor. 
11:7. The garden is to be filled with these trees. 

11154. If eligible to a maintenance in this garden of 
God, we must hear and know His voice and follow 
Him. We must know to be safe. In the Old Testa- 
ment we find the first principles of God in Christ, (the 
commandments) but the law could bring no fruit to 
perfection through them, yet the plan for the begin- 
ning was for man to go on to perfection. 

11155. Christ the law-giver, came the end of the law 
to all who believe to the saving of their souls. At His 
coming as Jesus, His first principle to add to the doc- 
trine laid down in the law, was repentance from dead 
works, and faith toward God, for He was with them, 
and could they fast for a thing? Not while the Bride- 
groom was with them. He had come to them. His sec- 
ond principles were the baptisms. Third, laying on of 



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hands. Fourth, resurrection of the dead. Fifth, eter- 
nal judgment. 

In the sixth chapter of Hebrews we are com- 
manded to go on to perfection, leaving the principles 
of the doctrine, and be reconciled to God, understand- 
ing of course, first by the study of them, that He, 
Christ, who gave them, extended to us knowledge of 
them through this teaching, and as He was, what He 
taught us, so we may become by knowing and doing His 
will which is taught in His principles, that is, that per- 
fect way. 

1(156. These principles make the substance of the 
vine, and we who are fruit-bearing branches must pro- 
duce evidence of production, living the life found in 
them ; continuing in that perfect way that Paul showed 
wayfarers by his analysis of them. 

Jesus said, 'T am the way," and Jesus was God and 
the only way. "Be ye perfect even as your Father in 
heaven is perfect." Read St. John 3:13. Jesus said 
He was in heaven as He was speaking. And said to 
Philip, I and the Father are one; if ye have seen me, 
ye have seen the Father. 

11157. Comparing spiritual things with spiritual 
things, we must have two spiritual things to discern 
and know between the two. Man cannot serve two spir- 
itual things at one time, for one or the other is unlike 
the servant until he becomes like it by obedience. It 
has pleased God to make us His people, and God, by the 
name of Jesus Christ, came the excellent way for all 
His chosen who will obey Him. 

11158. If we please God He will draw us or lift us 
upon the highway, and this way becomes our way, and 
He rejoices to do us good. 

They who will not be chosen for instruction, would 
rather experience the result of Eve's choice of Masters, 
remains the fearful, are not of faith, never attempt to 



72 Getting Along Without the Devil. 

do His will, for Satan has their eyes blinded with op- 
portunities, when Jesus said, lay not up for yourselves 
treasures where moth corrupt. 

1J159. The desire of the wicked shall perish for lack 
of knowledge, for Daniel said ,the wicked shall not un- 
derstand. 

The righteous man cannot afford to yield to mam- 
mon his members as servants of unrighteousness, for 
in doing this he goes out of his way and loses it, which 
is his life, (Christ) the way, and remains in the con- 
gregation of the dead. Blessed are the poor in spirit, 
for theirs is the kingdom of God, for Christ is theirs, 
the way, the truth, and the life. 

1fl60. The poor in the way, or the poor in spirit, or 
the poor in God, are all of one condition and kind, for 
God is Spirit, and in that Spirit you're in that way, 
with life, with God, and the soul of the diligent to see 
he arrives to this height, in this highway, and not 
found along the wayside to starve, shall be made fat, 
living and feasting on the words of life, eternal life. 
They who seek diligently are rewarded, and whatever 
such an one suffer, it is the will of God, but let him glo- 
rify God for righteousness' sake, that they who speak 
evil, falsely of you, shall reward you. 

11161. A false accusation against one of God's, is an 
offence against God, and it's impossible, but offences 
come, for some will not restore to God, and be com- 
forted by Him, though the Lord seek for them that are 
lost. Those who seek constantly for God receive light ; 
those who walk in this light, find the way, and they go 
on to perfection through the light of this way to God. 

1J162. Remember that a promise made by Jesus, 
who was God with us at that time, spake a parable re- 
citing His plan in dealing with His servants, who will 
make an effort to restore His kingdom. He gives to 
every man according to His several or well-defined 



Getting Along Without the Devil 73 

qualifications, these several endowments or gifts, and 
this power to convince the gainsayer is produced by the 
Spirit, a direct result of knowledge gained by seeking. 

11163. The substance produced must be exact in 
reality ; produced in the same way, by the same power 
that repays for service rendered in restoring His king- 
dom. 

1[164. He who understands a matter, gets knowl- 
edge (power) of the subject by the substance produced 
of the thing obtained. 

Tfl65. The knowledge we gain from the substance 
we seek, will produce evidence, which is either truth or 
otherwise as a test will prove. 

11166. God is the rewarder of those who seek Him 
diligently. So if we seeH God and are rewarded, we ob- 
tain what Jesus who was God in Christ by name, defi- 
nitely termed Spirit, the substance of the thing hoped 
for, power of God, and the wisdom of God, (Christ). 
1 Cor. 1 :24. 

11167. Not the zeal for God but the knowledge of 
God. The zeal of God is pursuit of God (Rom. 10:2), 
and is not substance of seeking, but is desire and pur- 
suit of God for reward. So as described in the para- 
graph 236, if we are rewarded we obtain power of God. 
Christ saying, "No man can come to me except the 
Father draw him." John 6 :44. 

1J168. The power of God is the only power to dis- 
possess doubts, and is the only evidence of ability. Such 
ability only is approved of God, and is known as His 
works through His servants, whereas in support of 
His word, His works are the only evidence of belief. 

11169. Believers are the fruit of doers of His word, 
whose works are evidence to them of possession. One 
who is in possession of Christ, (The power of God, 1 
Cor. 1 :24) is required to produce evidence to convince 



74 Getting Along Without the Devil. 

the gainsayer (Titus 1 :9) and compel belief by works, 
without which faith is dead. 

11170. Listen. Jesus said it, "He who seeks finds," 
"He that asks, receives." "To him that knocks, it 
shall be opened." Those who seek without ceasing are 
diligent. Those who ask without ceasing, are diligent. 
Those who knock continually, are diligent, and the 
souls of these are made fat. 

1(171. The Porter (the Holy Ghost) opens the door 
to the diligent and he goes in and out and finds pasture, 
and this door is Christ, the narrow way and straight 
gate, and if any enter in by me, shall be saved, He said. 

1F172. "To him that knocketh it shall be opened." To 
be opened is the way made plain so that the attributes 
of God which are found in His principle, His teaching, 
can be understood. When understood we obtain the 
knowledge of the teacher (Christ). You will obtain 
power to stand by adding to your faith, seven of His at- 
tributes, 2 Pet. 1:5, 6, 7. If these be in you and 
abound, ye shall not be barren and unfruitful in the 
knowledge of the Lord, and at the 10th verse, If ye do 
these things ye shall never fall. 

11173. At this point in the spirit of the doctrine of 
Christ, we find this scripture indicates the nature of 
God, which if revealed in our life, is evidence he is eat- 
ing the bread from heaven that gives life. Then we 
seek diligently, we ask diligently, and knock more 
earnestly, that we continue steadfast to the end, for we 
know why we stand, and how we stand. We are in na- 
ture, like God, having His Spirit. We are on this wise, 
and as much like God. If not like Him in spirit, we 
fall by the wayside, and perish for lack of knowledge of 
Him through His word. How we may know we are 
not of Him, is by examining ourselves, our spirit for 
doings, and see if our spirit agree with His word. Our 



Getting Along Without the Devil. 75 

spirit must agree with His word. Jesus said we are 
made clean through His word. John 15:3. 

1JI74. That which shall be opened is the word, and 
God's Spirit opens the door to His word, through which 
we go in and out and find pasture (bread of life) ; eat 
it is to understand it. David said, though a man be in 
honor and understand not is like a beast before God 
that perish. Psa. 49:20. Then, Matt. 13:19, we must 
understand this matter and to understand this 
spiritual problem that was written and spok- 
en spiritually, as Paul tells us it must be discerned 
spiritually, for the natural man receiveth not the 
things of the Spirit found at 1st Cor. 2:14. 

If 175. Whosoever let him take of the water of life 
freely (Rev. 22:17), and whosoever will, may come, all 
are called, but few are chosen. We don't choose God, 
but God chooses. Only the pure in heart shall see God, 
for we have to be innocent as little children to enter in 
through Christ, for the wicked shall not understand, 
and we must understand His will to work out our own 
salvation. If we neglect so great a problem as this, 
what will be the end of us, and the problem is solved 
by His teaching. 

If 176. We must love the Lord, we must love our 
neighbor, and our neighbor must love both of us, for I 
am my neighbor's neighbor, and my God is his God. 
Psa. 97:10: Ye that love the Lord hate evil. So my 
neighbor cannot be an evil doer. To love the Lord is 
mine and my neighbor's first duty, then love each other 
as ourselves 

lfl77. He that knoweth the will of God and doeth it, 
the same is my brother. If one is that to Christ then 
Christ is that to him, and in that day, ye shall know I 
am in the Father, the Father in me, and I in you. If 
you fulfill the law you mu3t love your neighbor, but 
he must be one that loves God. 



76 Getting Along Without the Devil. 

Ifl78. He that is perfect is on the highway above 
temptations. There is no temptation to him to cause 
him to sin, but along the wayside God suffers or allows 
temptations, tribulations and trials, hardships, etc., 
to compel us to find Him to shelter us from the fiery 
darts of Satan's. (His evil spirits). We are born in 
sin, and shaped in iniquity, and must come to God to 
get loosed out of captivity to Satan because of disobe- 
dience. 

*[179. Those who are not loosed from these bonds 
are yet out of harmony with God for lack of knowing 
His will and doing it. These are seeking things of the 
world yet from choice, rather than seeking the knowl- 
edge with power for their release. 

1J180. If we have respect of creeds or doctrines ; de- 
nominations that are each doing what they can, we do 
err from Christ's teaching, for He said he that is not 
against us is for us, for one cannot, and need not be 
ashamed that use His name. 

If 181. If the righteous be betrayed into the hands 
of sinners, their captivity increases want of esteem, 
and disrespect, and will be more depraved because of 
this entanglement, than he who leads into captivity; 
and these who have wandered out of the w r ay of under- 
standing remain in the congregation of the dead — sin- 
ners. 

TJ182. Sinners, or this dead congregation, for all 
men are without life, God said, that has not Christ, 
they hate this light and will not be comforted by His 
invitation to the marriage supper, being unworthy 
first, account of the things of this world, the people, 
more enticing and more satisfying. These are ever 
learning, but never coming into the knowledge of the 
truth. We must serve the bread of life to be served, 
and the knowledge or understanding how, is termed 



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feasting with the Lord, and clothes one in wisdom, and 
completes the wedding garment. 

TI183. The saints' white robes is that pure, clean, 
perfect state of mind, and spirit, created of God, of 
spirit, the Spirit leading them into the knowledge of 
the truth as they seek, ask and knock, and completes 
the wedding garment, which means one is equal to cir- 
cumstances, knowing His will and doing it from the 
fact he accepted His principles, His doctrine, then went 
on into pasture, or to the feast or supper with Him, not 
being defiled by any influence of the world (i. e.,) of 
the people. A man is cursed for trusting to the influ- 
ence of people that are not influenced of God. (Jer. 
17:5). The only thing flesh is able to sustain, revive, 
beget or adjust, is flesh, for of the flesh we only reap 
corruption. 

11184. We must be as unconcerned about things of 
this world as the devil is about his salvation. 

The devil's devotion to his plantation was shown 
when he tempted Jesus with his titles (Matt. 4). The 
Master never questioned or disputed his ownership, 
but the Son of man, begotten of the Spirit, would have 
no fellowship with the proprietor of it all, not willing 
to pay the price any man must pay who worships the 
god of gold ; he must surrender the Spirit of God. 

H185. The devil was created of God, the same as 
any other creature, but never was for righteousness, 
born to do God's will, for he was made to be taken and 
burned, (God knowing his nature) and that he was 
built to dishonor Him. If there were no imperfect 
things, or parts in creation, no knowledge of evil could 
exist, and men would yet exist where man was found, 
with no knowledge of evil to know or discern any 
pleasure derived from the influence of sin ; which 
caused God to hide His face and repent He ever made 
man. Where men seek pleasure and find it to be had 



78 Getting Along Without the Devil. 

outside of disobedience to the laws of God, is where 
God said you can find it without hunting for it, for we 
are created of it, flesh. 

1T186. A doer of righteousness, and to do His will, 
"if the born will of the doer," "then that doer is born 
of God, and doth not commit sin for His seed 
(Christ) remains in him, and he cannot sin." 1 John 
3 :9. He that doeth righteous, is righteous, even as He 
is righteous and has the Spirit of righteousness, the 
Spirit of God, and is born of God. But people as crea- 
tures of earth, that know not God, are not in any part 
or likeness of God, any more than the horse that 
is one of His creatures is like Him, for they have not 
His Spirit, yet man, any man, can be born, or can be 
begotten, made a new creature, by God's Holy Spirit. 
We cannot choose God, but God chooses us. Therefore, 
for His use He chose out of the people those fit, or such 
as should be saved. Acts 2 :47. 

If 187. One who is born of the Spirit of God cannot 
be carried about by every wind of doctrine, which are 
the wages of unrighteousness, which one receives for 
wayfaring, for he who knows the voice or influence of 
the Spirit of God follows that influence whithersoever 
His Spirit leads, and he is not in darkness, but knows 
his way. 

11188. Listen' Lay not up for yourselves treas- 
ures where moth corrupt. 

We have a picture of this treasure-seeking princi- 
ple in man, made manifest to us in a parable by the 
Master. I refer to it briefly here, but in His words this 
man was spoken of by Him as a fool. He had already 
everything full, and contemplating enlarging his stor- 
age rooms to care for a great surplus, whereupon the 
fierce anger of the Lord was executed, and he died that 
night. Blessed are the poor in spirit for they shall see 
God. If a man's desire is for more than what God has 



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for him, he cannot have even that which is God's to 
give. What God wants man to have is Kis Spirit. 
Then he receives power to add such other things as are 
needful to bring about His will on earth. To bring 
about His will you must continue in His doctrine, for 
in doing this you both save yourself and them that 
hear you. 1 Tim. 4:16. The rich man's reward was 
corruption ; and brought forth death. 

It is evident the Master doesn't countenance 
wealth, for He told the rich young man to sell it all. 
Christ said of Himself, He had not where to lay His 
head. Again He said it is enough for the servant to 
be as his master. 

Can you imagine the kind of service might be had 
of a servant for life to one whose Lordship's authority 
did not speak from titles ; while such servant's posses- 
sions were vast? This is exactly the condition in the 
case where the rich young man called Jesus Master, it 
was only in words, no doing ; he knew the will of God 
but couldn't and wouldn't do it. 

11189. The devil has people to believe they come into 
possession of this world's goods through and by per- 
mission of God, while if but one of God's command- 
ments are broken in obtaining wealth, it would be ill- 
gotten gain, while one who will venture to become 
well-to-do, must agree to violate everyone of God's 
principles. First, he must love his pursuit, when his 
first love is to love God. He must add earthly treas- 
ure to treasure, when he is commanded to lay up 
treasure in heaven, and so on through the decalogue of 
crime. 

1[190. Remitted by the gifts. "No man can say that 
Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Ghost." You will 
find this at 1st Cor. 12 :3. To say or make a report of 
your findings in any manner, must be by some, or 
through some knowledge of the facts stated. If one is 



80 Getting Along Without the Devil. 

clean (St. John 15:3) he is clean through the word 
which became flesh, that spoke these words, and none 
other is clean, and only the clean know the Lord that 
bestows the gift of the Holy Ghost, that testifies of 
Him. St. John 15:26. This gift (the Holy Ghost) is 
known as the Comforter, the Spirit of Truth, and the 
operations or works that produce the knowledge of the 
Lord are differently administered for this evidence, 
by this gift of the Spirit, £ound at 1st Cor. 12:6, and 
must come to pass, to fulfill that scripture, "so neglect 
not the gift that is in thee." 1 Tim. 4 :14. The posses- 
sion of which is an attraction to many, for by this gift 
all men know God, and He is a rewarder of knowledge 
and understanding to them that continue in His doc- 
trine, and by this continuing in them, we shall save 
ourselves, and them that hear us. 1 Tim. 4:16. 

Tfl91. Satan is the God of this world, and Mammon 
is a title or the proper name for him, a name given him 
by God who created him, to become the prince of the 
world, the proprietor of it all, who has the power to 
equalize it among those who best serve him, proving 
that Mammon pays cash and compels all rich and poor 
who live by merchandising (buy and sell) to take 
and wear a number, and the number is 666, the number 
of a man, and is worn by the Man of Sin, and others 
of that society. The number 666, it would seem, is a 
licensed number; and permits such only as wear this 
number, to buy or sell, and is their protection so far as 
power of man's arm can extend physical support ; yet 
at Jer. 17:5, we find this, "Cursed is the man that 
makes his strength the arm of flesh." 

You cannot serve God and gold, for gold is the root 
of all evil. So it's a golden altar where sinners wor- 
ship, and there perish for lack of understanding. Their 
god cannot save them. 

11192. if a man can be judged, or is judged, by the 



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amount of gold he can bank, then he is under obliga- 
tions to Satan, his helper. 

Tfl93. Satan judges his servants worthy of great 
titles, for a lifetime of service on his plantation, and 
appoints him to rule over much goods. These titles 
are Satan's reward for service, but Satan places these 
titles after their kind ; so close to the eyes of those in 
his employ, they cannot discern the proprietor. If we 
serve the proprietor of it all here for a lifetime for pos- 
session of what we can manage of it, then the gratifica- 
tion of its possession,, "the thing possessed while we 
serve the possessor," must satisfy our soul, for God 
does not reward one here for the up-keep of this world's 
goods, nor in the world to come, for He said to not lay 
up treasures where moth corrupt. 

The man of wealth is so prone to say, boastingly, 
my power and the might of my hands have gotten me 
this wealth. Deut. 8 :17. This man loves the things of 
this world, and at St. John 2 :15 is "if a man loves the 
things of this world the love of the Father is not in 
him." Christ said, "If a man will not forsake lands, 
wife and all for me, he is not worthy of me." 

1J194. Those who are worthy of Christ, possess 
Christ, which is that unchanging spirit of love, of 
charity, of candor, which binds one to God that was 
in Christ, that is a state of existence in Spirit, where 
His determinate counsel is the bond of perfection ; Paul 
saying, though I give my body to be burned and have 
not charity (knowledge of God) it profiteth me noth- 
ing. One must have candor and be unchangeable, 
which is to act with the Spirit of God, which is charity. 
Though I give my body to be burned and have not 
charity (be unchangeable) the test would prove noth- 
ing. 

11195. Hebrew Children. Had these children of 
God that were placed in the fiery furnace, proven oth- 



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erwise than unchangeable, the test could not have 
proven them so, for they would have been consumed. 
The test for that undisturbed principle, that unchang- 
ing spirit, is in trying one's knowledge, the principles 
of His doctrine found in one who knew them, or in 
other words, to find out what the doctrine of Christ 
is, get thoroughly acquainted with one's life who un- 
derstands His doctrine. To finally know it, see that 
the advocate is not influenced by creed, courts, cus- 
toms, men and wheedlers, but by the invisible for His 
power comes without observation. 

H196. One whose candor exhibits itself and not for 
public approval, whose high office is too noble and di- 
vine to ask man to magnify it, one who acts the princi- 
ples of divine instruction and guidance, one that is like 
in employment to what a disciple of Christ is required 
to be, his life is hid with Christ in God ; this is charity, 
and is the bond of perfection. This kind of life is 
faithful and unchanging, like the mustard seed that 
won't mix, and remains undisturbed, like old Daniel 
whose unchanging devotion to God closed the lions' 
mouths. 

1J197. If we have Christ, we have this never-dying, 
never-ending, living principle, a law, a doctrinal truth, 
that was life in Jesus, that testified to being the truth 
and when He ascended, He appointed the Holy Ghost 
to execute His will until it be done in earth as it is done 
in heaven, for His kingdom is to be set up in earth and 
reign here and be our God, while he (Satan), who is 
now god of this world, is to be cast into a bottomless 
pit. 

Hi 98. The principles of the doctrine of Christ will 
destroy the works of the devil, then that deadly wound 
is healed that introduced sin that was inflicted by the 
tree of knowledge, the old serpent. 



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1(199. Male and female all one flesh. This veil, or 
garment of flesh without the knowledge of God, as nat- 
ural brute beasts are made to be taken and burned. 
They speak evil of that they understand not and shall 
utterly perish in their own corruption. They are spots 
that are sin, unstable souls, cursed children forsaken 
the right way, and shall receive the reward of un- 
righteousness. 

T1200. David declared that in his past somewhere, 
he was so foolish and ignorant he was as a beast be- 
fore God. Psa. 73:22. Before possessing the knowl- 
edge of God we are unstable and clouds without water. 
Water here is emblematic of understanding, for in 
earth the Spirit, the blood and water agree in one. 1 
John 5 :8. Spirit, the first one of the three character- 
istics, must be part of our new birth. Blood, the sec- 
ond characteristic, is the substance of our carnal state, 
while water here so essential along with Spirit birth, 
is typical of understanding, for without understanding 
we are but as beasts before God. So of the water — its 
signification (an understanding or knowledge of God). 
And the Spirit, the image of God, we must be possessed. 

1J201. If we possess the water (understanding) 
and are the image of God in Spirit, we are bom of Him, 
for Jesus explained it so to Nicodemus. With our un- 
derstanding of Him, and His Spirit in us, and our life, 
or our blood in earth, of earth born of the flesh, mil 
agree, as did the prophets of God in their testimony, 
and as all His witnesses born of Him whose testimony 
we have in New Testament history did agree. Two 
cannot walk together except they be agreed. Amos 3:3. 
If two of you agree and ask, it shall be done. Matt. 
18:19. 

TI202. The Spirit, the blood, and the water agree in 
one. If these three agree in one, and the union is 
peace, we have what Christ gives us. If we have a 



84 Getting Along Without the Devil. 

spirit, and an understanding that cannot agree, and 
with these in our life, "our blood;" then it makes us 
that we are barren and unfruitful in the knowledge of 
the Lord Jesus, for Christ is our peace. Eph. 2:14. 
We have the unity of the Spirit, and are in the bonds 
of peace — in the kingdom or power of God — when we 
have the knowledge of the Lord Jesus. When we have 
the knowledge of the Lord Jesus we are not unfruitful 
for we are a live branch able to save both ourselves and 
them that hear us (1 Tim. 4:16) if we continue in His 
doctrine. The kingdom of God is peace. Rom. 14:17. 
Why are peoples so zealous, and yet at such a variance, 
or such discord as is most common ? Answer. Not yet 
born into the kingdom of God. The children of God 
are peace makers. Matt. 5 :9. 

Tf203. Now then, let him that desires understanding 
into this matter, quit coveting the things that savor of 
the world; things that moth corrupt, or that thieves 
steal. Try and understand the principles of Christ's 
doctrine, the whole word of God. Don't, like some, 
imagine vain things to be admired or for advantage; 
whereby envy, strife, rivalry and effort to surpass in 
number or in power, be uppermost in mind. Let all 
men be seekers after knowledge of God, for the lack of 
which His people perish. Psa. 49 :20. 

If204. Prov. 1 :32 : "How long ye simple ones will 
ye love simplicity, and fools hate knowledge." The 
evil one when he sees a man understanding the word of 
God, will influence him to seek popularity by attaching 
himself to sdmeone of the most popular churches, and 
live off of what he knows as a teacher. By these tac- 
tics Satan keeps the world in darkness, for God is 
robbed, His people remain in ignorance. It is a fact, 
men who ought to know better ; for popularity, for ad- 
vantage or for holding someone's person in admira- 
tion, they rob God. Such creatures are strong delu- 



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sions, having itching ears; having left off preaching 
the word, the doctrine of Jesus Christ, and have turned 
to fables ; trying to enforce spiritual laws to bring into 
God's kingdom the righteousness of men; which de- 
vour widows houses, and for a shew make long pray- 
ers. Luke 20:47. 

11205. To escape the delusions of teachers who 
transform the word of truth into fables to detract, les- 
sen, or amuse the diligent seekers after righteousness, 
is to require or demand of such teacher, credentials 
that are works, that Christ said He would do to con- 
vince the gainsayer. They will be of such nature when 
found to be of the truth, that will confound the 
mighty, by preaching the word to the poor, to heal the 
sick, not being of the spirit of the world ; they can pro- 
tect the flock from hirelings, for they do know them by 
their opinions, and vain imaginations, which institu- 
tions of learning have prepared in men to take the 
place of spirit revelation, vision, etc., and have not the 
inspiration of the unobservable. Whereas the gospel 
"they of the concision amuse and exalt themselves 
with," reports such itchy eared malefactors as perish- 
ables, read at Pro v. 29:18. Those who cannot observe 
things spiritually who must follow traditional teaching 
that is become psychical ; ascertained by man's ability 
to work out or develop, have no spirit vision of the 
truth. 

11206. Such as attempt to teach the word of truth 
from observation, and not by the principles found in 
the doctrine of Jesus Christ, are delusions, teaching 
the doctrines of men, not prompted by the Spirit of 
Christ, that thy will be done, O God, but prompted by 
salary, for the little spiritual effort of the big physical 
doer, whose whole life is devoted to practicing his col- 
legiate culture and refinements, while a minister of the 
word of truth, instead of disciplining his flock as a dis- 



86 Getting Along Without the Devil. 

ciple of God should, by works of the Spirit, instead of 
by the works of a college. 

Tf207. The title scholar is to execute more influence 
and power in a minister's career who has been pre- 
pared to divide the word of truth in some psychological 
school, than is expected to come through the name of 
Jesus, and is a false god, with false interpretations. 
We must not be deluded with any such explanation of 
God's word when no interview with the Spirit of God 
has been had, for the wisdom of men is foolishness to 
God. 

Tf208. As a comparison of spiritual things will 
prove identity of Spirit, so too when the carnal and 
spiritual are alongside each other, delusion is improb- 
able where it is not preferable. 

The Spirit's teaching should be preferable to teach- 
ings of science, for God never stood behind or ever 
pointed to a college anywhere in the lives of Holy men 
as the source of their learning and wisdom and power. 

H209. We must stand approved of God by test. To 
stand that test we need strength for endurance. We 
all will turn back if we meet the enemy, and we find 
him or it stronger than we. It is not God's will that 
any should perish ; so He has placed within our reach 
and for us, what we demand, and that is power to meet 
the enemy. Power to meet the enemy and spoil his 
goods, is not altogether found, and every time, by him 
that obeys the truth. Many innocent children of God 
go down before the fiery darts of Satan. It's absolute- 
ly though a fact that one must be innocent ; found with- 
out sin in his life, to obtain power to overcome the ene- 
my wherever. One who overcomes goes on to perfec- 
tion, is headed for Jesus. 

U210. Daniel met the enemy and was cast to th» 
lions, but Daniel's God preserved his faith, and the 
faith of Nebuchadnezzar. Anyone worthy will be pro- 



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tected, they cannot be deluded by doctrines of men and 
false prophets. Daniel was not deluded, but went on 
to perfection by walking in the light as it came to him, 
which means doing exactly what the Spirit of God says 
for you to do. So let us go on to perfection, led by the 
Spirit of Christ, and continue to be what the principles 
of His doctrine taught us they would make of us, 
(viz.,) "That we would not be barren and unfruitful in 
the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ," read at 2 Pet. 
1 :5, 6, 7. 

Tf211. One for whom Christ has broken the prison 
bars, is worthy to be called a child of God, and is set 
free from Satan, or pardoned, or on parole, never to be 
incarcerated again by Satan, if he will not fellow- 
ship devils. Yes, free, but just little children, to be- 
come like Christ if they know His will and do it. What 
He taught us if we observe and do, will make of us 
what He is, for it will form Christ in us. Gal. 4:19. 
John said, "As God is in this world so are we." But we 
must continue to be what the principles of His doc- 
trine taught us; never leaving the doctrine, but by it 
living and going on from dependence in signs, to evi- 
dence of perfection which is possession of the truth 
who taught us signs found in the first principles of His 
doctrine. Read Mark 16 :17. 

Tf212. Perfection is the whole truth of the doctrine 
of Christ and forms Christ in us, and this Christ our 
faith, is His substance that is found in each principle. 
He taught us, "We must live by every word that pro- 
ceeds out of the mouth of God." "It is enough for the 
disciple to be as his Master." Matt. 10:25. Matt. 10: 
23 : "Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, 
till the Son of man be come." 

Christ is come and must enter the strong man's 
house and spoil his goods, i. e., He is come to destroy 
the works of the devil. If He has not come we are in a 



88 Getting Along Without the Devil 

Christless world. If He went away and has not yet re- 
turned the disciples never got over the cities of Israel. 
If they did get over the cities of Israel, without Him, 
then their works were not His works. But He was 
with them, in them. 

H213. Yes, Christ came again; was with those dis- 
ciples till their end. Christ was of God, and John the 
beloved said at 1 John 4:4, "Ye are of God, little chil- 
dren, and greater is He that is in you than he that is 
in the world." I name this to show you God is in you, 
if you sin not ; and you will not, if you know God, and 
you will know God when you know His will by an un- 
derstanding of all the principles taught in His doc- 
trine ; then you will do His will and not before. You 
will not do much of anything, if you don't understand 
your subject, therefore Paul said at Gal. 4:19: "I tra- 
vail in birth (in spirit) for you until Christ be formed 
in you. The little children that the beloved John was 
speaking to, who knew that God was in them, were 
older children in the knowledge of God than the little 
children we read about at Gal. 4:19. Some remain lit- 
tle in the knowledge of God; ever learning, but never 
coming into the knowledge of the truth. Jesus told 
Pilate, "He that is of the truth (that knew Him) 
knows my voice," which is to hear and understand 
Him. 

1f214. God is not a power or capacity in any man 
that his mind may dictate his actions, i. e., man's mind 
dictate and find favor, but God's law by His Spirit can 
make God's word known to man's mind, that he might 
serve it. Rom. 7 :25. 

11215. Our Constitution grants to every citizen the 
right to worship God according to His own sugges- 
tions, or the dictations of narrow bigotry, or opinion, 
however biased; as though Christians could be made 
out of Baptist material more easily or possibly a better 



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grade of Christians according to Christ's opinion; or 
for that matter to say that man's opinion would save 
his soul should not be hinted, or that one doctrinal 
church has more power to save than another, unless 
the spirit has much more freedom in it; enough more 
so that devils worship in it. This is the freedom our 
Constitution grants, and we often find whoremongers 
dividing the word of truth, where only such as cannot 
afford to sin should have any protection from a nation 
calling itself Christian. A Christian nation must pro- 
tect those who worship Christ, and offer no protection 
to anyone that will persecute such worshippers just 
because they may be a citizen of that nation. 

No faculty born of flesh will ever reveal any knowl- 
edge to the word, of God, for the things that be of 
God knoweth no man. Paul said, he was judged of 
no man's conscience, therefore and accordingly it 
should not be held that a man's conscience is worthy of 
this Divine trust, to direct his own steps when we find 
too, that the prophet Jeremiah said it was not in man 
to direct his own steps. Read at Jeremiah 10 :23. 

1J216. He who worships God according to the 
dictates of his conscience cannot do so until that con- 
science is voiced by His Spirit, the Holy Spirit, for 
God is Spirit. He is holy and His who worship Him in 
Spirit are also holy as He is holy, for without which no 
man shall see God. Heb. 12:14. 

Those who worship God so, do oppose themselves, 
revealing a principle of salvation that is vain and ex- 
alts conscience above the Holy Spirit for a guide for 
His Holy Spirit is to be upon us, and finally within us 
to purge our conscience from dead works. 

^217. A man's conscience is the source of dead 
works for by it man weighs his words and works, and 
"works without faith (Christ) is dead," is of Holy 
Writ, while men will consult conscience to find peace, 



90 Getting Along Without the Devil. 

when and because they do not know that Christ is 
their only way, and their only peace. 

Men that in whom peace is not come to, if they 
should go down to the pit, would have to stand in judg- 
ment, but to all who have found peace, to whom peace 
is come, have stood chastising to the saving of them- 
selves from the snares of the devil and have washed 
their robes (lives) in the blood (life) of Jesus; laid 
down in His word. "Now are ye clean through my 
words." 

11218. If Christ and God be in you, which is alto- 
gether the Holy Spirit to purge your conscience from 
dead works, then you know the things that be of God, 
for you are no longer of the Spirit of the world. 1 Cor. 
2:12. 

As God is Spirit and is the Holy One, and that 
Spirit is within you, to you a gift, then you will mani- 
fest power of that spirit, that is for the specific use of 
the saints of God to save themselves and those that 
hear them. 1 Tim, 4:16. 

11219. The Holy Spirit when He comes in, arrives 
at the character of other spirits for us, and for the cor- 
rect solution of the Holy word of the Holy Spirit recon- 
ciling His generation to Himself. 

Read at 2 Chron. 16 :9 : "The eyes of the Lord run 
to and fro throughout the earth to show Himself strong 
in behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward Him." 
1T220. It is the nature of man born of the flesh to 
sin, for he is begotten in sin, and shaped in iniquity. 
Man is become denatured when that Holy Spirit birth 
is realized by him ; and such knowledge is acquired 
through the words of the Holy Ghost, or Spirit, or 
God in Christ, that said, Ye are clean through my 
words, which words have just developed a new crea- 
ture in spirit, through a more perfect understanding of 
His principles. 



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1J221. We will find nothing but the Spirit of God 
to give us wisdom to know God and His way, there is 
but one way, and very narrow, and straight is the 
gate. So high and narrow is the way, and so straight 
is the gate that spirit vision is necessary to discern the 
entrance. 

The Spirit, or the God that was in Christ, He only 
is the way-mark, for wayfaring men, though fools, 
shall not err therein, for it is the way of holiness, and 
those only who have been made clean through His 
words or doctrine shall walk therein. 

11222. The doctrine of Jesus Christ is the way, and 
many that go on pilgrimage, address blind guides along 
the wayside, and pause to confer with such and fall 
into the ditch. 

Every waymark is a delusion to the wayfarer that 
points to any other way of becoming holy except by 
the holy doctrine of the Son of God. 2 Chron. 15 :2 : 
"The Lord is with you while ye be with Him, and if 
ye seek Him He will be found of you, but if ye forsake 
Him He will forsake you." 

H223. God will not help the evil doer. Read Scrip- 
ture at 2 Chron. 18:18-22 inclusive. Here we read 
that Ahab was enticed by a lying spirit to go out 
against the Assyrians to battle and was slain. 

Because Ahab hated Micaiah without a cause God, 
by a lying spirit, enticed Ahab to battle and was slain, 
caused him to believe a lie and be damned, for he would 
not receive the love of the truth, Jesus saying as He 
rode into Jerusalem, "O Jerusalem how oft would I 
have gathered you together as a hen would her brood, 
but ye would not. The blind lead the blind, they both 
fall in the ditch. Jesus said, "Let them go." 

The blind leading the blind has a form of godliness 
or holiness, but denying the power of God. Christ is 
the power of God. Denying the power of God is anti- 



92 Getting Along Without the Devil. 

christ, saying Christ is not come in the flesh. If He 
is not come in the flesh then we have a Christless peo- 
ple, for Jesus interpreted (Emmanuel) Matt. 1:23, God 
with us, said, "In that day ye shall know that I am in 
the Father, the Father in me, and I in you." 

Or in other words, Christ is found in the word, and 
the word is in God (Spirit) and (Truth) and these 
were in Jesus Christ, and they are in you, when you 
know of the doctrine that it is of the Spirit Father, 
He who created you by His word. 

TJ224. You know God was in Christ, and they in 
Jesus, born of woman, and He grew in stature and in 
favor with God. He was nine months in the womb be- 
fore He was born of woman, and was thirty years be- 
fore He was born of God, then He and the Father were 
one ; for prophecy being fulfilled in Jesus, He saw He, 
Jesus, was God the Father and told Philip so. 

1(225. We must crucify the flesh, which is to con- 
vince ourselves that what we read in God's word about 
the flesh being corruption, or corruption of the flesh, 
etc., is as true as any other scriptures, and remember 
it is what Christ does that fulfills scripture the same 
now as at any other age. Man's works never stood ap- 
proved of God. But the educated beast enters our 
pulpits, (bullpits) with their fables of science and edu- 
cation to entice and amuse those who wish to slander 
the truth in some. 1 Pet. 4:11, we read: "If a man 
speak let him speak as the oracles of God." (Revela- 
tions). At Acts 2:4 is "Speak as the Spirit gives ut- 
terance." 

K226. All servants of God should not be slothful to 
ask understanding of God and receive it. Whosoever 
is a servant of God, with God's Spirit within him, de- 
sires understanding of God, and receives the word ex- 
plained. God's unbounded goodness never ceases to 
give to those who seek, ask and knock, but the explana- 



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tion of it all goes out to those only who stand in His 
presence, body, soul and spirit undefiled. 

11227. The necessary food for a spiritual body is 
the commandments of God; obey them, for in doing 
this the temple of God is kept undefiled. It is this way. 
If a real, sincere spirit dwells in that temple, the same 
in no wise is subject to discussion, asks no recompense 
of reward for obedience to God, for he delights to do 
His will. 

11228. The power to live above sin is given only to 
the sincere spirit, who has the mind of Christ operat- 
ing, and who is one for a truth repented of his sins, 
and quit the world and its ways and have on the robe 
of righteousness, which is necessary understanding to 
know God and His promises. 

1J229. The man of flesh at all times must obey the 
spirit within, and labor right in the sight of God, and 
do so not because he knows it is the will of God the 
Father, but that in him there is no desire to serve the 
law of sin, as a sinner, but will serve sin as master 
over evil, as Paul served it, and by such service too 
that men can see by his devoted life the earnestness 
of the man. 

11230. The angels of God are appointed over those 
of us, whom He has set over others, to establish His 
council and inheritance in His vineyard. The fruit of 
His vineyard are those of us whom His servants 
(angels) have foref ended, and glorified and thus we 
become servants here in His vineyard as angels are 
servants in that other world. 

1(231. The tares are sinners here who do not rec- 
ognize the law of sin in their members, but obey sin 
taking no thought of it for better or worse. 

H232. The bread of life is God, the word of God, 
the Son of God. A Son of God is a servant of God, with 
the Spirit of God, who is living right in the sight of 



94 Getting Along Without the Devil. 

God, without spot or wrinkle, for the temple in which 
God's Spirit dwells, walks rightly and modestly, and 
therefore His influence, His power and presence, make 
that a tabernacle of His own creation. 

1J233. The Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth, called 
Christ of God, is pure and holy and just, who never 
exposed the righteousness of God to the sins of this 
world, who shall never lose His purity and to whoever 
looks to the Holy Spirit in memory of Him, shall never 
lose the reward of His purity, and becomes a son of 
God in the sense he is recreated, regenerated, and lives 
in the Spirit, which fulfills the law he received from 
the Father. 

H234. Do not insist the temple perish. The temple 
is the mind that serves the law of God. By perish, 
means quit service and thereby defile the Spirit with 
any lust of the flesh, for if the temple be exposed to 
carnality, so also with it is the Spirit withdrawn from 
service. If the mind that serves the law of God should 
grow corrupt, the fruit of that tree is polluted too, and 
not Godlike. God is mighty and merciful and has a 
remedy for every ill and will grant it on conditions 
since we have been taken by His presence, as our safety 
depends upon the purity of the temple, body, soul and 
spirit, these are the demands of the Spirit, for the Holy 
Spirit will not come to abide where He can have no au- 
thority. 

1J235. If one will not let the Spirit of God rule their 
lives, then they must perish for lack of understanding, 
utterly perish in their own corruption. Luke 19 :27. 

1J236. The neighbor. We have but one for he must 
be as we, in the sight of God, that our love for him 
might be received by the Father, that he may rejoice 
with us, and that his joy be full, for at 1 Cor. 10:20 
the Holy Ghost saith, "I would not that ye have fellow- 
ship with devils." What fellowship hath righteous- 



Getting Along Without the Devil. 95 

ness with unrighteousness. As the poisons of ser- 
pents are deadly in design so the fellowship of the 
ungodly means calamity. Those who keep a chaste 
conversation are protected by the Lord. 

r 237. He that says I know the Lord and violates 
His commands., is a liar and the truth is not in him, 
for if Christ., who is the truth, was in him, he would 
obey. 

r 233. The Lord's face is against those who forge 
His name, impersonating Him. by using the title <l min- 
ister of the Lord," and this becomes so when a salary 
says yes. Lord. If we violate one of God's laws we 
know which one, and what for. and what spirit did it, 
for we know of what spirit we are if we transgress the 
Law. We of the household of faith uphold and keep 
the law of God holy. 

r 239. If we sin we are of the devil. The old ad- 
versary has societies for society folk, and he has 
church for church folk, all that deny the power of 
God. Sin is not imputed to those who do not covet the 
things of earth, and turn from them as Jesus did, when 
the old proprietor of it all tempted Him with it. As 
many as are led by the Spirit of God are not debto'rs 
to the flesh, and to these only is sin not imputed, for 
they cannot fulfill the lusts of the flesh. 

•"240. The old deceiver as an angel of light, (as 
an angel from God) in the church will be a false 
prophet, false in teaching, in discerning, in doctrine, 
and in all. he is false. Satan, as an angel of light, has 
obscured the light by becoming the bushel over it, or 
the napkin around the talent, and persuades the hidden 
one in darkness to plead; it's no longer I but Christ 
that lives within me, when, if it were Christ, the bushel 
over the dead man would be much safer if he would 
quote scripture right much of the time. 

r 241. The devil is set over his own angeh, and the 



96 Getting Along Without the Devil, 

church that is covered in sin, says lo, here is Christ, or 
there is Christ, as though Christ would deceive with 
fables, to tickle the conceit, or taste of strangers to 
God. Do we find Christ? No. Christ finds us. St. 
John 15:16: "Ye have not chosen me." 

11242. When one takes the Lord's name at his 
spirit birth he is a representative of the household of 
faith (of Christ) , and remains a live branch of the vine 
so long as he produces for the vine. But if Satan gets 
the production, the producer gets enough out of it to 
be called smart by the world. 

11243. If one, or it happens to be one who advocates, 
"It's no longer I but Christ that dwells in me," and 
he be overcome with much love for his female neighbor 
and is dragged into court over it. the devil will cry 
Amen. If we reprove sin the devil will say we've got 
the Holy Ghost. Where Christ abounds the tempter is 
repulsed, but it's the devil's business to capture as 
many as he can who start into the labors of the Lord. 

1^244. Until Satan is bound, the servants of God 
have only one object in view, and that is to bind the 
strong man and spoil the influence of his merchandise. 
When the secret places on earth of the most high, "of 
the so-called" most high places of worship, look more 
holy to our best well meaning followers of the Nazar- 
ene than is so by profession, we shall know by this 
sign Satan's influence is waning, for it is a lamentable 
fact holiness is highly professed, but as vapor pos- 
sessed. When holiness people have holliless ways, then 
holliless people get the holiness craze. It's true, to 
these people, God's Spirit withdrawn, so where will 
they go when the devil is gone. 

11245. When ail servants of God are of one mind, 
will be when His teaching is understood by all to be, 
fight sin in the church and drive it out ; keep it out and 
don't let any more in, which can be done by teaching 



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all alike that sin is an act of disobedience, and God's 
law does not recognize professions or testimony of men 
in whom there is sin. 

Can God grant or take the testimony of sinners ac- 
cording to scripture? Yes. "God have mercy on me 
a sinner." 

Sinner is a title or name for servants of Satan. 
Before man can change his title or name, he must 
change his master. If a ma/i who sins testifies for 
God, he does so to deceive man, but cannot deceive 
God, for He knows what is in man. 

"Charity is the bond of perfection," without which 
one's acts or deeds are unknown to God, for without 
this any test to prove the power of God would fail, 
not in possession of faith, (Christ) the substance of 
the thing hoped for. 

11246. One who has found this tie that binds, or this 
bond of perfection, or has the substance of that thing 
hoped for, (the Spirit of Christ) he knows perfectly 
well his duty to God in Spirit; his relationship, etc., 
and goes on to perfection, led by the Spirit of God. 
Such an one cannot afford to obey sin, for in so doing 
he would be obliged to release his hope realized 
(Christ) , and despise the reign, and dwell in the con- 
gregation of the dead. 

1J247. How shall we escape damnation if we neglect 
the salvation of our souls ? If we neglect to be spirit- 
ually minded we cannot escape the punishment we de- 
serve, for to be carnally minded is death, which, when 
interpreted, is forever shut out from the presence of 
the Lord, in hell, in torment. , 

U248. We find many well becoming dignitaries, 
where much learning has destroyed due reverence for 
the Deity, in so far as to affirm that God in man, is un- 
conscious matter, and yet was perfect from the begin- 
ning, and forms two-thirds of man's mentality, that it 



98 Getting Along Without the Devil. 

mends depleted tissue while we sleep, really created 
the body it repairs and heals, and arouses and stimu- 
lates the inherent forces to normal activity, and is sub- 
ject to direct control of the one-third conscious mat- 
ter of man's intellect, and that the conscious one-third 
evolved from a cell many times smaller than a mustard 
seed by the unconscious two-thirds that was perfect 
from the beginning: the man of science is more than 
confident to his honor aijd his surprise. If this is not 
dispossessing, and an attempt to defame and deprive, 
and is not blasphemy against God, then what is it? 

1f249. It is the wonderful words and works of 
science and education that demoralize the truth of 
God, and these are that which make the peoples of the 
world wander after the beast, and is more enticing 
than the word of God. For this the heart of man (the 
mind) has already received its condemnation. The 
condemnation is, "The carnal mind is enmity against 
God." Such would rather wear the blemish that 
science and education create, "a deadly wound" for 
the spiritual man and miss heaven, than to crucify 
man power and miss the pleasures of life. This is the 
sin unto death, for he that wanders out of the way of 
understanding shall remain in the congregation of the 
dead. 

1[250. It is the devil's business to capture as many 
as he can, and science is his only means, and is a mark 
of the beast. When the devil captures one in this way, 
it is by placing him in his class on psychic phenomena, 
which is the carnal expose of the wonderful soul work- 
ings or findings of men, the achievements of colleges 
and great institutions of learning. 

This mighty horde of deluders who desecrate the 
name Jesus Christ our God, shall fail to establish their 
work now, as they failed to destroy His name by cru- 
cifixion, and shall utterly perish in their own corrup- 



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tion. The message from these unconscious minds is 
slanderously impressible that the healer of all our ills 
is their unconscious healing minds, God's only healing 
power in man. The old deceiver was not very wise 
when he drafted this sentence for the author, viz., 
"That God's only healing power in man is of uncon- 
scious matter." 

r 251. God is manifesting these shepherds of earth 
that have no form of Godliness, they are in reality ex- 
posed at Eccl. 3 :18 ; that they may see that they them- 
selves are beasts. Man has become to worship the 
image of the beast; man power, the result of science 
and education. Science and education is the power of 
the man born of the flesh. 

The Spirit of God is the power and life of the man 
born of the Spirit of God. The man of sin will be re- 
vealed in the works of men, while Christ will not be 
found through any science; but will always dispute 
men's observation, as a means for disclosing God's 
power, but to man's observation the man of sin will be 
revealed. 

The man of sin will be revealed, or sin will reveal 
itself in man's features and forms, but the kingdom or 
power of God (Christ) cometh without observation. 

r 252. Is it possible to love a neighbor not yet di- 
vorced from sin? Yes. How? The neighbor hap- 
pens to be a female neighbor, which would be spiritual, 
but the wrong spirit, turns out she is another man's 
wife. 

•"253. God is Spirit and God is love. There is no 
sin in spiritual love if that love is the Spirit of God. 
He that loves God, who is spirit, loves his spiritual 
neighbor who is married to God; but has no com- 
mand to love a spiritually evil person. "Beware of 
men," said the Master. This caution concerns us, and 
means those of concision, those who would, by science 



TOO Getting Along Without the Devil. 

and education, separate us from the power of God. 
Matt. 10; 17. 

1J254. Another caution — beware of Mammon. The 
enticing Mammon is the god of gold. It is that 
power of evil in man that entices men to turn from 
the paths of right living, to obtain the comforts of life 
at the expense of virtue. 

1)255. Wash your face and anoint your head. Matt. 
6:17. Jesus said, be not as the hypocrites, that pray 
standing in the synagogues and street corners; they 
pray to be seen of men. Matt. 6:5. And in the same 
chapter, verse 7, He describes they that pray to be 
seen, as heathen. In the 8th verse, same chapter, be 
not like unto them, for your Father knows what ye 
have need of before ye ask. 

11256. The Lord's Prayer. "Our Father which art 
in heaven." Our Father was Jesus — and He said He 
was in heaven. John 3:13. "Thy kingdom come," the 
power of God. "Give us this day our daily bread." 
Our daily bread is His word, or manna from heaven, 
dedicated or set apart for us, that by the eating of it 
(understanding it) we can become holy as He is holy, 
and compliment and praise God, Spirit that gave us 
life. Christ. "Without Christ we have no life." Christ 
said, "Without me ye have no life." And further He 
said, "No man can come to me except the Father draw 
him." And further on said, "God is a Spirit." So it 
is the spirit birth from which we receive the spirit of 
truth (Christ). "Lead us not into temptation," "But 
deliver us from evil." 

The disciples were not yet delivered from evil, 
therefore could not withstand temptation, they were 
not yet born into the kingdom, for when one is born 
of God he keepeth Himself and the evil one toucheth 
him not. 1 John 5:16. Then such are above tempta- 
tion only that are born of the Spirit, God. This kind, 



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even the things they once loved as Paul said, "they 
now hate." 

Tf257. We are led into God's kingdom by being 
taught we must hate the things of the world. Come 
out from among them and be separate, etc., and I will 
receive you. 2 Cor. 6:17. Read Scripture at 2 Tim. 
2:26. God tempts no man after being tried out; one 
who has stood trial ; past examination. Every man is 
tempted when he is drawn away. James 1:14. 

H258. Matt. 6:17: "When " thou fasteth anoint 
thine head." Christ is your head, and "wash your 
face." Christ is your head. To anoint Him is to ded- 
icate or set apart His life, our Master, that becomes 
our life through Him. Sanctify God who was in 
Chirst, in your heart, for He is your hope, your faith, 
your reliance. By the Spirit of God we pray believing. 

•[259. The fast is the time intervening between our 
request or desire that a thing be done, and it comes to 
pass; or in other words, while we remain fixed, or 
continue, or abide in Him that doeth all things, for 
without Him we can do nothing. Christ said, "Ask 
and I will do it." At Isa. 58 :6, 7. This is the work or 
labor of the Lord; whilst we remain fixed in Him, or 
continue in or abide in Him. This is what Christ, the 
power of God, doeth through us. 

1[260. Wash your face. Wash your face, said Je- 
sus, when you fast. Matt. 6:18. While waiting upon 
the Lord, remaining in a fixed spiritual state; abiding 
in the Spirit. One is dead to the world of things ; his 
face is not confused by doubts and fears created by 
sin, even proud looks God hates, which play upon the 
countenance, an expression of the face, is also washed 
away (in the Spirit). Men who do not know God can- 
not understand this. 

H261. God has very few real servants in the 
Spirit. We mean by this expression — in the Spirit — 



102 Getting Along Without the Devil. 

"moved upon by the Holy Ghost," as all holiness people 
should be, when they prophesy or pray, that do so 
without that glow of the Spirit playing upon the face. 
What's left of the man of sin, revealed by the expres- 
sion upon the face, after that the face is washed in 
Spirit, God will pardon. 

Tf262. God wants a servant to be just as big a no- 
body to be admired, as the world has to reject. God 
can't entertain the mind of man, whom the world 
loves to regard as a smart dresser, or worldly wise. 
A man does not believe when the wrong signs follow. 
A man cannot believe the words of a language he 
cannot understand, neither can a man believe the word 
of God he does not understand. A man cannot believe 
he is a Christian if he cannot understand the word of 
God, for Jesus said, Except ye understand, the evil one 
takes away that which was sown in the heart. Matt. 
13:19. At St. John 3:12 we find God knows a man 
must understand first before he can be a Christian, or 
a believer. God don't expect a man to believe a thing 
he doesn't understand. 

God, speaking to Nicodemus of the wind, that he 
could hear, and that he could not tell from whence it 
came, or where it went. So is everyone that is born 
of the Spirit. As the wind is in its freedom, so is the 
Spirit of God. "No man hath power over the Spirit 
to retain it, except he doeth righteously always, even 
unto the end ; the same shall be saved, which is even 
the Snirit of God, for none other Spirit can be saved, 
for His Spirit only knows the way, which is of Christ 
the way. 

1T263. If we ever expect to be advised we must 
prepare ourselves fit for advice. We must have a 
teachable spirit and build upon the foundation of re- 
pentance to receive faith, for without faith work is 
dead. Christ is our faith, who is to supply the fruit 



Getting Along Without the Devil. 103 

that gives us power to serve the living God, holding 
fast the profession of our faith (Christ) without wav- 
ering. The profession, or declarations of Christ, our 
faith, is evinced or made plain in His principles of His 
doctrine baptisms, laying on of hands, resurrection of 
the dead, and of eternal judgment. 

^[264. There are but five principles of Divine doc- 
trine, all other doctrines are doctrines of the devil's, 
according to Paul. These five principles are the 
strength of our Master builders foundation, and is the 
chief cornerstone or doctrine that will perfect or make 
Christlike, and are the foundation of repentance, in 
that, through them, we find Christ and believe, for He 
gives us something to repent for (viz.,) both baptisms, 
healing and ordination by laying on of hands; resur- 
rection from the dead, for he that is not of the house- 
hold of faith is dead spiritually, and he that will wan- 
der away from understanding, remains in the congre- 
gation of the dead. And of eternal judgment; for we 
must prepare for it and be fit for it, made fit here to be 
judged of it — the word that judges at the last day. 

1T265. 1 Peter 2:6: Peter says, ''He that believes 
on Him shall not be confounded." 

You can get Peter's experience in this. Peter, be- 
fore his conversion, was confounded the night Christ 
Jesus was betrayed and delivered into the hands of 
sinners, insomuch he denied Christ, but after he was 
clothed upon, had been made a partaker of the fruits 
of the vine (Christ), he saw he had been an unworthy, 
and remarked at his crucifixion, hang me with my 
head down, which every dead man will do who denies 
or who doesn't understand Christ's principles. He will 
hang his own head down when he is questioned sharp- 
ly what the principle of Christ's doctrine is; that is 
the foundation of repentance. As eternal judgment 
is the fifth part of Christ's doctrine, which is for re- 



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pentance from dead works, Peter made sure he judged 
himself rightly this time and was not ashamed of Jesus 
since he knew Him, for he knew Him by the Holy Ghost 
(1 Cor. 12:3) this time; and was not ashamed of 
Him, as he was when in dead works, before the corner- 
stone or the foundation of repentance from dead works 
had fully come. 

11266. When Peter denied Christ and the cock crew 
was before Peter's conversion, was before Christ's 
resurrection, which He had foretold Peter. Was be- 
fore baptism of the Holy Spirit, and before many other 
manifestations of the Spirit of God — as Christ prophe- 
sied — would come ; such as the nine gifts. 1 Cor. 12. 
All taken together are the promises of God laid down 
in the principles of His doctrine; an instrument of 
writing to us who would follow Him through it, that 
we might be able to say by His Spirit, by the renew- 
ing of our mind ; I know Christ and believe Him, for 
I am clean through His word, I understand His doc- 
trine. I am no longer a dead man for I know Christ, 
as I am no longer doing wickedly, for I understand. 
Daniel said, "He that doeth wickedly shall not under- 
stand." 

1J267. Anyone who is indifferent about their spir- 
itual condition and will chance that with a shepherd, 
that will take their dollar a month, or week, for pas- 
ture, are liable not only to go to bed hungry but run 
a bigger risk of going to hell for lack of wisdom, for 
God says if a man lack wisdom let him ask of me. God 
says my people perish for lack of knowledge, and the 
reason for it is they are paying a pasture bill to mam- 
mon, and are eating the forbidden fruit, for sheep feed 
cannot be had for money or price which is that manna 
from heaven ; wherefore will ye spend money for that 
which is not bread. Isa. 55:1. Buy of me, says God, 
and let your soul delight in fatness. 



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^1268. Another, and our last word, to backsliders. 
If you are too proud, too wise, too fat and clumsy, or 
have any reasonable excuse for not wishing to hold 
your footing in or on this highway, we will excuse you 
if you will acknowledge it is all your fault, and don't 
say you fell on account of sin. You knew what sin 
was before; you ought to have stayed with the devil 
until he turned you away for the same reason you quit 
the Holy way, or until he got tired of you as a knocker. 

1T269. Mr. Backslider, you cannot begin again, for 
your beginning is in the past ; but you can repent, or 
change from doing for Satan what the Lord found you 
doing (sinning), and get along a little better next 
time with the Lord, for you have found He doesn't 
kick a man that's down for lack of knowledge; if he 
fell before he understood his former master was not a 
minister of light, for that which has not been told you, 
you shall hear, if you will examine the truth to find the 
rewarder of your search, and when you find Him for 
the truth's sake, you have your reward, which is the 
power of God to know evil and keep yourself out of 
the influence of sin. 

Tf270. Not the man who never knew God is to work 
out his own salvation, for this kind cannot come to 
God until He lets the oppressed go free, who is the 
prisoner of Satan, but God loosens Satan's first hold, 
but no sacrifice of God's time is offered again to a cap- 
tive who is retaken, for his former change is known to 
him and he knows he had to quit sinning or quit ser- 
vice to the devil, and is, or may be, all he knew to do 
at the time, but the test must come to all overcomers 
as it came to Christ. A man must know to be safe, 
for the lack of knowledge God's people perish. 

If 271. Jesus said what I say unto one I say unto all, 
watch, for ye know not what hour the Son of man 
cometh. When He calls you to go, you may be found 



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in the congregation of the dead, having wandered out 
of the way of understanding, so therefore keep your 
lamps trimmed and burning, that men may see your 
good works and glorify the Father which is in Christ, 
which is in you. 

11272. "In that day ye shall know that I am in the 
Father and the Father in me, and I in you." 

This paragraph closes this division of His resolu- 
tions, but the reader may have under separate cover, 
that which is impossible to add to this edition now, 
but very soon it is expected to have another chapter of 
eighty pages included in this book, that is now sep- 
arate, which reveals the Man of Sin, the number of the 
beast, and his name. 

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